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Ceasing to be a slave, he became a man, whose foremost right is Equality of Rights.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Ceasing to be a slave, he became a man, whose foremost right is Equality of Rights.”
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Sumner emphasizes that with emancipation comes the fundamental right to equality for all individuals.
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