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In the Convention which framed the Constitution it was branded as “a nefarious institution,” or more mildly called “wrong”; and these generous voices came from the South as well as from the North.
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Sumner notes that even in the Constitutional Convention, slavery was condemned as a nefarious institution by voices from both the North and South.
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