On the record
It is bad enough, at any time, to thrust an escaped slave back into bondage: it is absurd to thrust him back at a moment when Slavery is rallying all its forces for the conflict it has madly challenged.
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It is bad enough, at any time, to thrust an escaped slave back into bondage: it is absurd to thrust him back at a moment…”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner condemns the act of returning escaped slaves to bondage, especially during a time of war over slavery.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.
Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.
Other voices in this conversation
