Charles Sumner: “You have not forgotten that terrible decision, where an unrighteous…”

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You have not forgotten that terrible decision, where an unrighteous judgment was sustained by falsification of history.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner recalls the unjust judgment of the Dred Scott case, which distorted historical facts.

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Charles Sumner: “You have not forgotten that terrible decision, where an unrighteous judgment was sustained by falsification of history.”