Charles Sumner: “We abjure all inequality before the law; but here is an inequality…”

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We abjure all inequality before the law; but here is an inequality which touches not an individual, but a race.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner highlights that inequality before the law affects entire races rather than individuals.

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Charles Sumner: “We abjure all inequality before the law; but here is an inequality which touches not an individual, but a race.”