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Charles Sumner: “Even if Slavery cease to exist, it will give place to a condition hardly less galling.”

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Even if Slavery cease to exist, it will give place to a condition hardly less galling.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner warns that even with the end of slavery, oppressive conditions may persist.

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