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Is it a Republic of Equal Laws, or an Oligarchy of the Skin?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Is it a Republic of Equal Laws, or an Oligarchy of the Skin?”
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Sumner contrasts the ideals of a republic with the reality of racial oligarchy.
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