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By a single Act of Parliament the slaves of the British West Indies were changed at once to freedmen; and this great transition was accomplished absolutely without personal danger of any kind to the master.
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Sumner cites the example of the British West Indies, where slaves were freed without danger to their masters, to argue for the feasibility of emancipation.
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