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The piety of Abraham, who offered up Isaac as a sacrifice to Jehovah, is imitated, and the country continues to offer up fugitive bondmen as a sacrifice to Slavery.
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Sumner critiques the moral hypocrisy of sacrificing individuals to uphold slavery, drawing a parallel to the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac.
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