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But such contract would be in itself an act of manumission; for a slave cannot make a contract.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “But such contract would be in itself an act of manumission; for a slave cannot make a contract.”
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Sumner argues that a contract made by a soldier who was once enslaved constitutes an act of freedom.
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