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Charles Sumner: “Then will the Barbarism of Slavery be repelled, and the pretension of property in man be rebuked.”

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Then will the Barbarism of Slavery be repelled, and the pretension of property in man be rebuked.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that the existence of slavery must be challenged and condemned to promote freedom.

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