Charles Sumner: “Even as applied to free colored persons, it must be considered as a…”

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Even as applied to free colored persons, it must be considered as a relic of Slavery not yet removed out of sight.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner describes the lingering effects of slavery on the treatment of free colored persons.

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Charles Sumner: “Even as applied to free colored persons, it must be considered as a relic of Slavery not yet removed out of sight.”