Charles Sumner: “The people were ignorant, vicious, and poor, or degraded to abject…”

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The people were ignorant, vicious, and poor, or degraded to abject slavery,--itself the sum of all injustice and all vice.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques the moral and social conditions of the ancient populace, emphasizing their struggles.

More from Charles Sumner

Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.

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Charles Sumner: “The people were ignorant, vicious, and poor, or degraded to abject slavery,--itself the sum of all injustice and all…”