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The same considerations which determine the value of other testimony will suffice with regard to him; and thus, in every respect, the rule of exclusion becomes irrational and arbitrary.
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Sumner believes that the same standards for evaluating testimony should apply to slaves, making the exclusion rule arbitrary.
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