On the record
Slavery denies justice to the colored man by cruelly rejecting his testimony.
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Sumner points out the injustice faced by colored individuals in legal testimony due to slavery.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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