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A white person may treat them as he treats a slave, and they are absolutely without remedy.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “A white person may treat them as he treats a slave, and they are absolutely without remedy.”
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Sumner points out the lack of legal protection for free colored persons, equating their treatment to that of slaves.
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