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The difference was not between whites and blacks, but between slaves and freemen.
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Sumner points out that the distinction in society is not based on race but on the status of being a slave versus a freeman.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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