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Charles Sumner: “The blunder-crime must be renounced, so that Slave pirates may no longer sail the sea, robbing, destroying, burning…”

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The blunder-crime must be renounced, so that Slave pirates may no longer sail the sea, robbing, destroying, burning, with British license.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner condemns the actions of slave pirates and calls for their cessation.

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