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Yet most of these faithful Unionists are not white.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Yet most of these faithful Unionists are not white.”
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Sumner points out that many of the loyal Unionists in the Slave States are not white, challenging racial assumptions of the time.
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