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Charles Sumner: “Nor do I see how I can abandon their rights here without abandoning them everywhere.”

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Nor do I see how I can abandon their rights here without abandoning them everywhere.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues that abandoning the rights of colored persons in one place means abandoning them everywhere.

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