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Charles Sumner: “If Emancipation is yet longer delayed, Slavery is at least dislodged from its predominant influence.”

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If Emancipation is yet longer delayed, Slavery is at least dislodged from its predominant influence.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He expresses hope that the end of slavery's influence will lead to progress in emancipation.

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