Charles Sumner: “Too often commerce and conquest moved hand in hand, and the colony was…”

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Too often commerce and conquest moved hand in hand, and the colony was incarnadined with blood.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques the violent history of colonization, where commerce often accompanied conquest.

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Charles Sumner: “Too often commerce and conquest moved hand in hand, and the colony was incarnadined with blood.”