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Looking carefully at Slavery as it is, we find that it is not merely a single gross pretension, utterly inadmissible, but an aggregation of gross pretensions, all and each utterly inadmissible.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Looking carefully at Slavery as it is, we find that it is not merely a single gross pretension, utterly inadmissible…”
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Sumner describes slavery as a collection of multiple unacceptable injustices.
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