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In express terms there is admission of the idea of Inequality of Rights founded on race or color.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “In express terms there is admission of the idea of Inequality of Rights founded on race or color.”
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Sumner critiques the notion of racial inequality embedded in legal frameworks.
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