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In harmony with this contrition was his early feeling for the enslaved African, as witness his tract, “The Selling of Joseph,” so that he may be called the first of our Abolitionists.
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Sumner highlights the early abolitionist sentiments of a historical figure who recognized the wrongs of slavery.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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