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Charles Sumner: “Neither has ever opposed, in any form, the coastwise slave-trade under the flag of the United States.”

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Neither has ever opposed, in any form, the coastwise slave-trade under the flag of the United States.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner highlights the lack of opposition to the coastwise slave trade by certain political entities.

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