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Charles Sumner: “Slavery, in one of its enormities, is now before you for judgment.”

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Slavery, in one of its enormities, is now before you for judgment.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner presents slavery as a significant moral issue that requires judgment and action.

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