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But in abandoning these words, all idea of property in man was abandoned also.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “But in abandoning these words, all idea of property in man was abandoned also.”
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Sumner asserts that by avoiding the term 'slave,' the concept of human property was also rejected.
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