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Charles Sumner: “The new-fangled doctrine, that a slave-master can voluntarily import his alleged slave--of course with all the revolting…”

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The new-fangled doctrine, that a slave-master can voluntarily import his alleged slave--of course with all the revolting incidents of Slavery--into the Free States, is not more odious than preposterous.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues against the legality and morality of slave importation into free states.

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