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Cruelly, he was not permitted to testify in court; most unjustly, he was not allowed to vote.
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Sumner highlights the injustices faced by former slaves, particularly their exclusion from legal and civic rights.
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More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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