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Charles Sumner: “I am sorry also to say that the South-Carolinians generally entertain to a great extent their old ideas and prejudices…”

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I am sorry also to say that the South-Carolinians generally entertain to a great extent their old ideas and prejudices, so disastrous of late to the State.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner critiques the persistence of outdated prejudices among South Carolinians that hinder progress in the state.

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