Charles Sumner: “Now Emancipation is an accepted watchword, while Slavery is openly…”

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Now Emancipation is an accepted watchword, while Slavery is openly denounced as a guilty thing worthy of death.

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Massachusetts

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He notes the transformation in public sentiment where emancipation is now embraced and slavery is condemned.

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Charles Sumner: “Now Emancipation is an accepted watchword, while Slavery is openly denounced as a guilty thing worthy of death.”