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Charles Sumner: “In the first place, everybody who has had any practical experience of the working of the plantations or of the…”

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In the first place, everybody who has had any practical experience of the working of the plantations or of the superintendence of negro labor will tell you that the control of the abandoned plantations and the care of the colored people must be in the same hands.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner states that practical experience dictates that the management of plantations and care for freedmen should be unified.

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