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Charles Sumner: “If colored persons cannot testify against white persons, what protection can they have against outrage?”

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If colored persons cannot testify against white persons, what protection can they have against outrage?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He questions the protection of colored individuals if they are barred from testifying against white individuals.

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