Viewing it rather in the light of ransom for the slave than compensation to the master for a right surrendered, he upholds it as a duty springing from the complicity of the whole country in the existence heretofore of the system in the domain exclusively under national jurisdiction.
Sumner argues that compensation for slavery should be viewed as a moral duty rather than a financial transaction.
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