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Not, then, by occasional contribution to ransom a slave can your duty be done in this great cause, but only by earnest, constant, valiant effort against the institution, against the law, which makes slaves.
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Sumner insists that merely providing funds to free individual slaves is not enough; a sustained effort against the institution of slavery is required.
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