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But who can doubt that the abolition of the whole Black Code, in all its oligarchical pretensions, civil and political, is “appropriate” to “enforce” the abolition of Slavery?
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Sumner argues for the complete abolition of the Black Code as essential to enforcing the abolition of slavery.
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