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Charles Sumner: “Grateful for this example, I am grateful also, that, while slaveholder, and seeking the return of a fugitive, he has…”

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Grateful for this example, I am grateful also, that, while slaveholder, and seeking the return of a fugitive, he has left in permanent record a rule of conduct which, if adopted by his country, will make Slave-Hunting impossible.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner expresses gratitude for Washington's example, which he believes could end slave-hunting.

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