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With similar inhumanity here, the black child who goes to sit on the same benches with the white is banished, not indeed from the country, but from the school.
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Sumner draws a parallel between the caste system in India and the segregation of black children in American schools.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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