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But the denial or abridgment of Equality on account of color is also part of Slavery.
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Sumner asserts that racial inequality is intrinsically linked to the institution of slavery.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
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