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If Frederick Douglass and Oscar James Dunn could be made to suffer, how much must others be called to endure!
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner emphasizes the widespread suffering caused by racial discrimination, using Douglass and Dunn as examples.

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