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Charles Sumner: “Already by a higher statute is that island set apart to the colored race.”

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Already by a higher statute is that island set apart to the colored race.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner claims that San Domingo is inherently tied to the colored race by natural law.

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