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They are perfectly subordinate to every law, and, so far as thieving is concerned, such an assertion is gratuitous or false; for all cases of thieving, certainly, I am sorry to say, are done by the whites.
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Sumner argues that accusations of thievery among freedmen are false, attributing such acts to white individuals instead.
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