All that is bad in Slavery, its audacity, its immorality, its cruelty, its robbery, its meanness, its ignorance, its barbarous disregard of human rights, and its barbarous disregard of every obligation, must all be reproduced in its representative.
Sumner lists the negative traits associated with slavery, asserting that they are reflected in its representatives.
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