Charles Sumner: “And what compensation shall be awarded for the egregious assumption…”

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And what compensation shall be awarded for the egregious assumption, condemned by reason and abhorred by piety, which changes man into a thing?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner highlights the moral outrage of treating human beings as property and questions the compensation for such an egregious act.

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