Charles Sumner: “Like the slave under a weary weight of chains, it raises its exhausted…”

On the record

Like the slave under a weary weight of chains, it raises its exhausted arms, and pleads for the angel Deliverer.

Said by

Massachusetts

Source

Sumner compares civilization's struggle for freedom to a slave pleading for deliverance.

More from Charles Sumner

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

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

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

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

Other voices in this conversation

Charles Sumner: “Like the slave under a weary weight of chains, it raises its exhausted arms, and pleads for the angel Deliverer.”