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Charles Sumner: “Let it not be said, then, that in the present case the inconvenience is too slight to justify the appeal I make in…”

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Let it not be said, then, that in the present case the inconvenience is too slight to justify the appeal I make in behalf of colored children for Equality before the Law.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner appeals for equality before the law for colored children, arguing against dismissing their grievances as trivial.

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