Charles Sumner: “Slavery is the forcible subjection of one human being, in person…”

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Slavery is the forcible subjection of one human being, in person, labor, and property, to the will of another.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner defines slavery as the coercive domination of one person over another's labor and property.

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Charles Sumner: “Slavery is the forcible subjection of one human being, in person, labor, and property, to the will of another.”