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Charles Sumner: “This infinite wrong must not be allowed to skulk in serfdom or compulsory labor.”

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This infinite wrong must not be allowed to skulk in serfdom or compulsory labor.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner insists that the wrong of slavery must not be allowed to persist in any form of forced labor.

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