Charles Sumner: “It is an offensive difference between persons founded on birth, not…”

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It is an offensive difference between persons founded on birth, not unlike that maintained among us on account of a skin received from birth.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner compares caste distinctions based on birth to racial discrimination in society.

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Charles Sumner: “It is an offensive difference between persons founded on birth, not unlike that maintained among us on account of a skin…”