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Charles Sumner: “Would he have been the author of such a brutality, had the woman been white?”

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Would he have been the author of such a brutality, had the woman been white?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner questions the racial motivations behind acts of brutality.

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