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Slave labor, which is the mainspring and nursery of Rebel supplies, without which the Rebellion must starve, will be disorganized, while a panic spreads among slave-masters absent from their homes.
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Sumner argues that disrupting slave labor is crucial to weakening the rebellion against the Union.
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