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Charles Sumner: “There seems no limit to the Senator’s anxiety lest they should be bound in Slavery.”

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There seems no limit to the Senator’s anxiety lest they should be bound in Slavery.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner comments on the Senator's excessive concern about the potential for freedmen to be enslaved.

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