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Charles Sumner: “Pursuing our victory, I now insist that this assumption shall be trampled out.”

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Pursuing our victory, I now insist that this assumption shall be trampled out.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner calls for the rejection of the conspirators' assumptions about race.

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