Charles Sumner: “I was soberly assured by eminent politicians, that if colored persons…”

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I was soberly assured by eminent politicians, that if colored persons were allowed to vote there would be massacre at the polls.

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Massachusetts

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Here, Sumner recounts the dire warnings he received regarding the potential violence of allowing Black individuals to vote.

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