Charles Sumner: “It is now more than three years since I deemed it my duty, in the…”

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It is now more than three years since I deemed it my duty, in the Senate, to expose the Barbarism of Slavery.

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Sumner reflects on his commitment to exposing the horrors of slavery in the Senate.

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Charles Sumner: “It is now more than three years since I deemed it my duty, in the Senate, to expose the Barbarism of Slavery.”