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Aiming to exhibit Slavery in its laws, without dwelling on the accumulated instances of cruelty, he puts the case on the strongest ground; and here his unimpeachable witness is the statute-book itself.
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Sumner highlights the importance of legal evidence in exposing the realities of slavery, using the statute-book as a witness.
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