Charles Sumner: “At present he is only a recent chattel, awaiting your justice to be…”

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At present he is only a recent chattel, awaiting your justice to be transmuted into manhood.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner describes the plight of freedmen as they await justice to transform their status from property to human beings.

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Charles Sumner: “At present he is only a recent chattel, awaiting your justice to be transmuted into manhood.”