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On the high seas, under the national flag, Slavery will be impossible.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “On the high seas, under the national flag, Slavery will be impossible.”
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Sumner asserts that slavery cannot exist on the high seas under the national flag, emphasizing its illegality.
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