Charles Sumner: “This Committee proposes in this Amendment to sell out four million…”

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This Committee proposes in this Amendment to sell out four million (radical count) negroes to the bad people of those States forever and ever.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner condemns a proposed amendment as a betrayal of four million African Americans.

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Charles Sumner: “This Committee proposes in this Amendment to sell out four million (radical count) negroes to the bad people of those…”