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Charles Sumner: “In the Free States the number of publishers was 331; in the Slave States, 24.”

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In the Free States the number of publishers was 331; in the Slave States, 24.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner provides specific statistics on the number of publishers in Free versus Slave States.

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