Charles Sumner: “The white man is punished by being deprived of his liberty for that…”

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The white man is punished by being deprived of his liberty for that length of time: what liberty is the slave deprived of?

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Massachusetts

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He points out the irony that while white men suffer loss of liberty in prison, slaves may not experience the same deprivation.

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Charles Sumner: “The white man is punished by being deprived of his liberty for that length of time: what liberty is the slave deprived…”