To appreciate the true character of this proscription, we must repair to the Slave States, where it is declared, and consider it in the very language, legislative and judicial, by which it is maintained, not neglecting the eccentricities of judicial opinion by which it has been illustrated.
Sumner insists that to understand the injustice of racial proscription, one must examine its application in Slave States.
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