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Whether regarded in mass or detail, in origin or result, it is all blackness, illumined by nothing from itself, but only by the heroism of the undaunted men and women whom it environed.
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Sumner reflects on the dark reality of slavery and the courage of those who resisted it, portraying a grim picture of the situation in Kansas.
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