Charles Sumner: “Under this doctrine, they have converted a tract of Free Territory…”

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Under this doctrine, they have converted a tract of Free Territory into Slave Territory more than five times the size of the State of New York.

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Massachusetts

Source

Sumner points out the significant expansion of slave territory due to the doctrine of Non-Intervention.

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Charles Sumner: “Under this doctrine, they have converted a tract of Free Territory into Slave Territory more than five times the size of…”