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It is only when we regard Slavery in its essential elements, and look at its unutterable and unquestionable atrocity, that we fully comprehend the mingled folly and wickedness of this question.
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Sumner discusses the need to recognize the true horror of slavery to understand the urgency of its abolition.
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