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Is it not an inhuman act for these poor people to be made outlaws for no crime, only that they refused to join their traitor masters in onslaught on our beneficent Government?
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Sumner denounces the treatment of fugitive slaves as inhumane, arguing they are unjustly criminalized for resisting their oppressors.
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