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It is a task worthy of a soul so elevated, so pure, and so disinterested, to begin the revolution in Virginia, to prepare the way for the emancipation of the negroes.
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Sumner advocates for the emancipation of enslaved people in Virginia, highlighting the moral imperative of the cause.
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