Charles Sumner: “Slavery is forcibly introduced into Kansas, and placed under formal…”

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Slavery is forcibly introduced into Kansas, and placed under formal safeguard of pretended law.

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Sumner denounces the formal introduction of slavery in Kansas, highlighting the injustice of the legal framework supporting it.

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Charles Sumner: “Slavery is forcibly introduced into Kansas, and placed under formal safeguard of pretended law.”