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If Slavery be the “blessing” it is vaunted, then must the Slave-Trade be beneficent, while they who ply it with fiercest activity take place among the missionaries and saints of humanity.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If Slavery be the “blessing” it is vaunted, then must the Slave-Trade be beneficent, while they who ply it with fiercest…”
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Sumner critiques the notion that slavery can be considered a blessing, equating it with the slave trade.
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