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Charles Sumner: “And yet his story is not without passages which quicken admiration and give assurance for the Future,--at times melting…”

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And yet his story is not without passages which quicken admiration and give assurance for the Future,--at times melting to tenderness, and at times inspiring to rage, that these children of God, with so much of His best gifts, should be so wronged by their brother man.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner acknowledges the resilience and potential of Africans despite their suffering, evoking a range of emotions.

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