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In similar spirit Slavery is sometimes said to be for the benefit of master and slave, and of the country where it exists.
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Sumner draws a parallel between the justification of separate schools and the rationale often used to defend slavery.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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