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What money shall be paid for taking off the padlock by which souls are fastened down in darkness?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “What money shall be paid for taking off the padlock by which souls are fastened down in darkness?”
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Sumner metaphorically asks what price should be paid to free souls from the bondage of slavery.
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