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Charles Sumner: “And in Slavery he saw also the prolonged and diversified indignity to the African race.”

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And in Slavery he saw also the prolonged and diversified indignity to the African race.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Here, Sumner discusses the broader implications of slavery on the dignity of the African race.

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