Charles Sumner: “Under these words no colored minor in the State is safe for one moment…”

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Under these words no colored minor in the State is safe for one moment from compulsory serfdom.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner warns that the legal language used could lead to the re-establishment of servitude for colored minors in the state.

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Charles Sumner: “Under these words no colored minor in the State is safe for one moment from compulsory serfdom.”