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One book, the marvel of recent literature, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” is treated thus by the Church as by Slave-Masters, being honored by the same suppression at the Vatican as at Charleston.
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Sumner critiques the suppression of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by both the Church and slaveholders, highlighting the widespread censorship of anti-slavery literature.
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