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Charles Sumner: “And yet this proscription is adopted and enforced in the courts of the United States.”

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And yet this proscription is adopted and enforced in the courts of the United States.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner criticizes the enforcement of racial proscription within the U.S. legal system.

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