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If Slavery were removed, the Africans would flow back, instead of overflowing here.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If Slavery were removed, the Africans would flow back, instead of overflowing here.”
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Sumner believes that if slavery were abolished, Africans would return to their homeland rather than migrate north.
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