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Are you aware, Sir, that this line, so unhappily notorious in our history, is almost precisely the parallel of Algiers, once the chief seat of White Slavery?
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Sumner draws a historical parallel between the Missouri Compromise line and the notorious history of white slavery in Algiers.
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