Charles Sumner: “It is true that suffrage is at last accorded to the colored race; but…”

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It is true that suffrage is at last accorded to the colored race; but their masters are left in power to domineer, and even to organize.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques the political situation where former enslavers retain power despite the granting of suffrage to the formerly enslaved.

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Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

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Charles Sumner: “It is true that suffrage is at last accorded to the colored race; but their masters are left in power to domineer, and…”