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Charles Sumner: “Indeed, it is hardly less essential to Slavery than the lash itself.”

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Indeed, it is hardly less essential to Slavery than the lash itself.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He asserts that the mechanisms of slavery are deeply intertwined with societal injustices.

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