Charles Sumner: “It does not belong to the military to decide upon the relation of…”

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It does not belong to the military to decide upon the relation of master and slave: such questions must be settled by the civil courts.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that military authorities should not intervene in the master-slave relationship, advocating for civil court jurisdiction.

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