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Charles Sumner: “Why this common humanity, why this common brotherhood, if the inheritance is for Brahmins only?”

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Why this common humanity, why this common brotherhood, if the inheritance is for Brahmins only?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner questions the notion of brotherhood if only a select few benefit from it.

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