I remember, that, many years ago, when I first came into this Chamber, the good people whom I represent were shocked at reading that four colored sailors of Massachusetts had been sold into slavery in the State of Texas.
Sumner recalls the shock of his constituents upon learning about the sale of colored sailors into slavery.
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The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
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