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Charles Sumner: “But even where a separate school is planted, it is inferior in character, buildings, furniture, books, teachers: all are…”

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But even where a separate school is planted, it is inferior in character, buildings, furniture, books, teachers: all are second-rate.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques the inferiority of separate schools compared to common schools.

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