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Meantime companies are forming to import coolies and European immigrants to drive the black man from the little chance that is left him.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner warns about the economic competition posed by the importation of laborers that threatens black workers' opportunities.

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