Charles Sumner: “Once Slavery was the animating principle in determining the meaning of…”

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Once Slavery was the animating principle in determining the meaning of the National Constitution: happily, it is so no longer.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner reflects on the historical shift in the interpretation of the National Constitution away from slavery.

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