Charles Sumner: “True, indeed, it was that our own white brethren, entitled like ourselves to all the rights of manhood, were degraded in…”

“True, indeed, it was that our own white brethren, entitled like ourselves to all the rights of manhood, were degraded in unquestioning obedience to an arbitrary taskmaster, sold at the auction-block, worked like beasts of the field, and galled by the manacle and lash.”