What sum shall be counted out as the proper price for the abandonment of that pretension--more indecent than the jus primæ noctis of the feudal age--which leaves woman, whether in the arms of master or slave, always a concubine?
Sumner condemns the notion of compensating for the abandonment of the degrading status of women under slavery.
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Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
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