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If legal chicanery can avail, those rights will be but nominal, and they will remain, as they have ever been, isolated and apart,--free in name, but slaves in fact.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If legal chicanery can avail, those rights will be but nominal, and they will remain, as they have ever been, isolated…”
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Sumner warns that legal manipulations could render the rights of freedmen meaningless.
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