Charles Sumner: “The African, whatever may be then his condition, will no longer be the slave over whose wrongs and sorrows the world…”

“The African, whatever may be then his condition, will no longer be the slave over whose wrongs and sorrows the world throbs at times fiercely indignant, and at times painfully sad, while with outstretched arms he sends forth the piteous cry, “Am I not a man and a brother?”