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This very phrase “held to service,” standing alone, is the pleonastic definition of Slavery itself.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “This very phrase “held to service,” standing alone, is the pleonastic definition of Slavery itself.”
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Sumner defines the phrase 'held to service' as synonymous with slavery.
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