Charles Sumner: “And yet in this terrible case there was retaliation, and the famished…”

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And yet in this terrible case there was retaliation, and the famished victim is revealed as ferociously gnawing the skull of his tormentor.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner uses a historical analogy to illustrate the consequences of retaliation and the moral degradation it entails.

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