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In the cause of my black brethren,” he writes, “I feel myself warmly interested, and most decidedly side, so far as respects them, against the white part of mankind.
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Sumner quotes Lafayette's strong support for the rights of Black individuals, emphasizing his commitment against racial oppression.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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