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The first is, that from my place in the Senate I early proclaimed Slavery to be Barbarism.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The first is, that from my place in the Senate I early proclaimed Slavery to be Barbarism.”
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Sumner asserts his early declaration that slavery is barbaric from his position in the Senate.
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