All testimony, whether from official documents or from travellers, shows, beyond question, that in these islands the condition of the negro is improved by emancipation; but this testimony is especially instructive, when we learn that the improvement is most strongly manifest in those who have been born in Freedom.
Sumner highlights the positive effects of emancipation on the condition of the negro in the islands, particularly for those born free.
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