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Thus is the Black Republic enrolled as an equal; and yet have we struck at this equality.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Thus is the Black Republic enrolled as an equal; and yet have we struck at this equality.”
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Sumner laments the contradiction of having recognized Hayti's equality while simultaneously undermining it.
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