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Charles Sumner: “If courts were thus inspired, it is easy to see that Slavery would disappear under righteous judgment.”

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If courts were thus inspired, it is easy to see that Slavery would disappear under righteous judgment.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner believes that if courts acted justly, slavery would be abolished.

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