Charles Sumner: “The freemen of the North are responsible for it equally with the…”

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The freemen of the North are responsible for it equally with the traffickers in flesh who haunt the shambles of the South.

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Massachusetts

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He states that the responsibility for slavery lies with both the North and the South.

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