Charles Sumner: “All crime is in Slavery, and so every criminal is reproduced in the…”

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All crime is in Slavery, and so every criminal is reproduced in the slave-master.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that all crime stems from the institution of slavery, implicating the slave-master in the moral corruption of society.

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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

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Charles Sumner: “All crime is in Slavery, and so every criminal is reproduced in the slave-master.”