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Charles Sumner: “He is pinched and dwarfed while the stigma of color is stamped upon him.”

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He is pinched and dwarfed while the stigma of color is stamped upon him.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner describes the detrimental effects of racial stigma on a child's growth and development.

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