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None have ever escaped with honor from that deadly embrace.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “None have ever escaped with honor from that deadly embrace.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner claims that no one has ever emerged honorably from an alliance with slavery.
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