Charles Sumner: “In the provisions of that section he found a new system of Slavery…”

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In the provisions of that section he found a new system of Slavery: sometimes it was Slavery outright, and sometimes it was Peon Slavery.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques a section of a bill that he believes establishes a new form of slavery.

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Charles Sumner: “In the provisions of that section he found a new system of Slavery: sometimes it was Slavery outright, and sometimes it…”