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Charles Sumner: “The man thus portrayed was an African, whose only school was Slavery.”

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The man thus portrayed was an African, whose only school was Slavery.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner highlights the potential of an African man who was educated under slavery.

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