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Elsewhere it has been kept back in becoming modesty; here it is pushed forward in all its brutish nakedness.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Elsewhere it has been kept back in becoming modesty; here it is pushed forward in all its brutish nakedness.”
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Sumner critiques the overt display of brutality in the context of slavery in America.
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