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Charles Sumner: “Often expressing himself with various degrees of force against Slavery, and promising his suffrage for its abolition, he…”

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Often expressing himself with various degrees of force against Slavery, and promising his suffrage for its abolition, he did not see this wrong as he saw it at the close of life, in the illumination of another sphere.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner remarks on Washington's evolving views on slavery throughout his life.

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