Charles Sumner: “But if separate colored schools are illegal and impossible in the…”

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But if separate colored schools are illegal and impossible in the country, they must be illegal and impossible in Boston.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that if separate schools for colored children are illegal elsewhere, they cannot be legal in Boston either.

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

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

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

Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.

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Charles Sumner: “But if separate colored schools are illegal and impossible in the country, they must be illegal and impossible in…”