But now, for the first time in the world’s annals, a people professing civilization has commenced war to uphold the intolerable pretension of compulsory labor without wages, and that most disgusting coïncident, the whipping of women and the selling of children.
In this statement, Sumner condemns the moral atrocities of slavery, particularly the violence and exploitation associated with it.
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