Charles Sumner: “If white persons are kept out of their rights, so are colored persons…”

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If white persons are kept out of their rights, so are colored persons; and I would ask my friend from Ohio, Which has been kept out the longest?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner points out the shared struggles of white and colored persons in securing their rights.

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Charles Sumner: “If white persons are kept out of their rights, so are colored persons; and I would ask my friend from Ohio, Which has…”