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Drive Caste from this Republic, and it will be, like Cain, “a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Drive Caste from this Republic, and it will be, like Cain, “a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth.”
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Sumner calls for the elimination of caste systems in America, likening it to a biblical figure.
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