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Meanwhile left to savage life, he has been a perpetual victim, hunted down at home to feed the bloody maw of Slavery, and then transported to another hemisphere, always a slave.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Meanwhile left to savage life, he has been a perpetual victim, hunted down at home to feed the bloody maw of Slavery…”
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Sumner poignantly describes the plight of Africans who have suffered under slavery, emphasizing their victimization.
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