Charles Sumner: “Not encouragement, but discouragement of Slavery,--not its…”

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Not encouragement, but discouragement of Slavery,--not its nationalization, but its denationalization, was their rule.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the intention of early lawmakers was to discourage slavery rather than promote it.

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Charles Sumner: “Not encouragement, but discouragement of Slavery,--not its nationalization, but its denationalization, was their rule.”