Charles Sumner: “We were told that you could not bear freedom,--that you would be…”

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We were told that you could not bear freedom,--that you would be lawless, idle, and thriftless.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner challenges the notion that freed individuals would be incapable of handling freedom responsibly.

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His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

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Charles Sumner: “We were told that you could not bear freedom,--that you would be lawless, idle, and thriftless.”