So completely has this been done, that it is among boasts often made, that a stranger in a distant country or a future age, reading our Constitution, and having no other record of our history, would not know that any human being had ever been claimed as “property” within the limits of the Republic.
Sumner argues that the Constitution is so well-crafted that it does not reveal the existence of slavery to future generations or outsiders.
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