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The parallel is so complete, that I require all your trust to believe that what I read is not an apology for Slavery here.
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Sumner asserts that the similarities between the two forms of slavery are so striking that he urges his audience to trust his argument against slavery.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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