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Charles Sumner: “Strange and disgraceful as all this is, it must be considered the natural fruit of Slavery.”

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Strange and disgraceful as all this is, it must be considered the natural fruit of Slavery.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques the consequences of slavery, emphasizing its disgraceful nature.

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