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The whole pretension of a “war of races” is an invention to cover the brutality of the oppressors.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The whole pretension of a “war of races” is an invention to cover the brutality of the oppressors.”
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Sumner criticizes the narrative of a racial war as a false justification for oppression.
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