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It is simply this: Man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a “chattel,”--that is, a beast, a thing, or article of property.
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Sumner highlights the dehumanization of individuals under slavery, reducing them to property.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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