On the record
It has been my fortune latterly to see Slavery face to face in its own home, in the Slave States; and I take this early opportunity to offer my testimony to the open barbarism which it sanctions.
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Sumner shares his firsthand experience of the brutal realities of slavery in the Southern states.
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