On the record
Its origin is Slavery, its mainspring is Slavery, its object is Slavery.
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Its origin is Slavery, its mainspring is Slavery, its object is Slavery.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner succinctly identifies slavery as the core element of a particular system.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
Other voices in this conversation
