Charles Sumner: “I refer, of course, to the talk of compensation, under the shameful…”

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I refer, of course, to the talk of compensation, under the shameful assumption that there can be property in man.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner condemns the idea of compensating slave owners, challenging the notion of property in humans.

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Charles Sumner: “I refer, of course, to the talk of compensation, under the shameful assumption that there can be property in man.”