Charles Sumner: “He could also testify in courts of justice, like a white man,--which…”

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He could also testify in courts of justice, like a white man,--which no American slave, nor colored person in a Slave State, can now do.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner points out the legal inequalities faced by American slaves and free people of color, advocating for justice.

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Charles Sumner: “He could also testify in courts of justice, like a white man,--which no American slave, nor colored person in a Slave…”