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Charles Sumner: “Such should be the final fate of Slavery, naked and dishonored, stretched where all may tread upon it.”

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Such should be the final fate of Slavery, naked and dishonored, stretched where all may tread upon it.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

This statement expresses Sumner's vision for the ultimate disgrace of slavery in society.

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