Charles Sumner: “Only in his coffin was the ban of color lifted, and the dead statesman…”

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Only in his coffin was the ban of color lifted, and the dead statesman admitted to that equality which is the right of all.

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Sumner reflects on the irony of racial equality being acknowledged only in death.

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