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Founded on color of the skin, they are, beyond question, the most senseless and disgusting of all history.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Founded on color of the skin, they are, beyond question, the most senseless and disgusting of all history.”
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He describes race-based aristocracy as the most senseless and disgusting form of social hierarchy in history.
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