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Charles Sumner: “In the city and in the village, in the field and in the workshop, everywhere will this question be sounded in the ears…”

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In the city and in the village, in the field and in the workshop, everywhere will this question be sounded in the ears: "Are you for Freedom, or are you for Slavery?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He powerfully poses the question of allegiance to freedom or slavery in various social settings.

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