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Adlai Stevenson: The one vital and portentous question--in some one of its many phases--was that of human slavery.

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The one vital and portentous question--in some one of its many phases--was that of human slavery.
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Adlai Stevenson

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Stevenson highlights the centrality of human slavery as a critical issue in American history.

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