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I find that they who talk most against coercion of Rebels and coercion of States are indifferent to the coercion of four million people, men, women, and children, to work without wages under discipline of the lash.
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Sumner highlights the hypocrisy of those who oppose coercion of Rebels while ignoring the oppression of enslaved people.
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