Charles Sumner: “The meat eaten by man enters into and becomes part of his body; the madder eaten by the dog changes his bones to red…”

“The meat eaten by man enters into and becomes part of his body; the madder eaten by the dog changes his bones to red; and the Slavery on which men live, in all its fivefold foulness, must become part of themselves, discoloring the very soul, blotting the character, and breaking forth in moral leprosy.”