Charles Sumner: “To detest and combat such an accursed pretension it is not necessary…”

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To detest and combat such an accursed pretension it is not necessary even to be a Christian,--it is sufficient to be a man.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that one does not need to be a Christian to oppose the evil of slavery.

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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

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Charles Sumner: “To detest and combat such an accursed pretension it is not necessary even to be a Christian,--it is sufficient to be a…”