"By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel."
— Slavery

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

Sources

Charles Sumner, The Anti-Slavery Enterprise, address at New York (9 May 1859), in C. Edwards Lester (ed.) Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner (1874), p. xxvii