Charles Sumner: “Now melting to tears, and now inspiring to rage, her work everywhere…”

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Now melting to tears, and now inspiring to rage, her work everywhere touches the conscience, and makes the Slave-Hunter more hateful.

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Sumner describes the emotional impact of a woman's work in the abolitionist movement.

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Charles Sumner: “Now melting to tears, and now inspiring to rage, her work everywhere touches the conscience, and makes the Slave-Hunter…”