Charles Sumner: “It was not slaves only that were disfranchised, but I have shown that…”

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It was not slaves only that were disfranchised, but I have shown that free negroes were also disfranchised.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner highlights that both slaves and free black individuals faced disenfranchisement.

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Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

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Charles Sumner: “It was not slaves only that were disfranchised, but I have shown that free negroes were also disfranchised.”