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.
Sumner uses a vivid metaphor to explain how the moral degradation of slavery affects both the enslaved and the enslaver.
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