Charles Sumner: “Let these pretensions be renounced, and Slavery ceases to exist; but…”

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Let these pretensions be renounced, and Slavery ceases to exist; but there can be no “just compensation” for any such renunciation.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that the end of slavery cannot be compensated, as it is a moral imperative to abolish it.

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Charles Sumner: “Let these pretensions be renounced, and Slavery ceases to exist; but there can be no “just compensation” for any such…”