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It was the work of slaveholders, and by their concurring votes was crowded upon a reluctant North.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It was the work of slaveholders, and by their concurring votes was crowded upon a reluctant North.”
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Sumner asserts that the compromise was imposed by slaveholders on a resistant North.
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