Charles Sumner: “I replied, that the Virginians were in an error,--that, evidently…”

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I replied, that the Virginians were in an error,--that, evidently, sooner or later, the negroes would obtain their liberty everywhere.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that the eventual liberation of enslaved people is inevitable, challenging the beliefs of Virginians.

More from Charles Sumner

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

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Charles Sumner: “I replied, that the Virginians were in an error,--that, evidently, sooner or later, the negroes would obtain their…”