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Every freedman must be secured in this right by admission to the full panoply of citizenship.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Every freedman must be secured in this right by admission to the full panoply of citizenship.”
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Sumner advocates for the full citizenship rights of freedmen as essential to their freedom.
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