On the record
Beyond all doubt, according to reason and justice, every slave possesses the same right to enslave his master that his master possesses to enslave him.
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Sumner provocatively claims that slaves have the same right to enslave their masters as their masters have over them.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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