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Charles Sumner: “And all this you sanction, when you leave the freedman despoiled of his rights.”

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And all this you sanction, when you leave the freedman despoiled of his rights.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner criticizes the sanctioning of injustice against freedmen by society.

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