Charles Sumner: “Meantime companies are forming to import coolies and European…”

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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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Massachusetts

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

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Charles Sumner: “Meantime companies are forming to import coolies and European immigrants to drive the black man from the little chance…”