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Charles Sumner: “Surely the race enslaved for generations has suffered enough without being doomed to this prolonged proscription.”

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Surely the race enslaved for generations has suffered enough without being doomed to this prolonged proscription.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues that the historically oppressed race should not endure further discrimination.

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