Slavery tyrannically assumes power which Heaven denied,--while, under its barbarous necromancy, borrowed from the Source of Evil, a man is changed into a chattel, a person is withered into a thing, a soul is shrunk into merchandise.
Sumner condemns slavery for transforming humans into mere commodities, stripping them of their essence.
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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
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