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Language is feeble to express all the enormity of an institution which is now exalted as in itself a form of civilization, “ennobling” at least to the master, if not to the slave.
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Sumner emphasizes the inadequacy of language to fully convey the horrors of slavery, which is falsely celebrated as a form of civilization.
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