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It is the most valuable Antislavery document that I have ever seen.
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Sumner regards a particular document as the most significant contribution to the antislavery movement he has encountered.
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More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
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