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Every line bears upon the slave-drivers of our country, with greater force even than upon the slave-drivers of the West Indies; for audacity here goes further than it was ever pushed in the British dominions.
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Sumner argues that the critique of slave-drivers in the article applies even more forcefully to those in America.
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