Charles Sumner: “Denying to colored fellow-citizens their place on the juries, you…”

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Denying to colored fellow-citizens their place on the juries, you actually deny them justice.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that denying colored citizens the right to serve on juries equates to denying them justice altogether.

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Charles Sumner: “Denying to colored fellow-citizens their place on the juries, you actually deny them justice.”