From the solidarity of Slavery, the fall of this abomination among us must cause its fall everywhere,--so that in Cuba, Porto Rico, Brazil, or wherever else a slave now wears a chain, that Proclamation will be felt.
Sumner asserts that the fall of slavery in the U.S. will have a ripple effect on slavery worldwide.
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