Charles Sumner: “But I am obliged to add that no modification leaving “distinctions”…”

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But I am obliged to add that no modification leaving “distinctions” transmissible with the blood can be adequate.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques the inadequacy of modifications to caste systems that still allow for blood-based distinctions.

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Charles Sumner: “But I am obliged to add that no modification leaving “distinctions” transmissible with the blood can be adequate.”