Charles Sumner: “Even in the uncertainty of the future it is easy to see that the…”

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Even in the uncertainty of the future it is easy to see that the national freedman and the national creditor have a common fortune.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner highlights the interconnected fates of freedmen and creditors in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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