Charles Sumner: “Every such assumption is an indignity to the colored race, instinct…”

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Every such assumption is an indignity to the colored race, instinct with the spirit of Slavery; and this decides its character.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner condemns assumptions that demean the colored race, linking them to the legacy of slavery.

More from Charles Sumner

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.

Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.

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Charles Sumner: “Every such assumption is an indignity to the colored race, instinct with the spirit of Slavery; and this decides its…”