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Nature has made the weak in mind or body for slaves.” In the same vein, a Democratic paper of South Carolina has said, “Slavery is the natural and normal condition of the laboring man, black or white.
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Sumner critiques the belief that slavery is a natural condition for laborers, highlighting the flawed reasoning behind such claims.
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