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Charles Sumner: “Can Freedom be born, can nations be regenerated, only through baptism of blood?”

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Can Freedom be born, can nations be regenerated, only through baptism of blood?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner questions the necessity of violence for the birth of freedom and the regeneration of nations.

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