Perhaps he does not know, that, in the worst days of the Polish aristocracy, this same argument was adopted as excuse for holding white serfs in bondage, precisely as it is now put forward by the Senator, and that even to this day the angry Polish noble addresses his white peasant as “Son of Ham.
Sumner draws a parallel between historical arguments for white serfdom and contemporary justifications for slavery, emphasizing the absurdity of such claims.
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