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Charles Sumner: “Beyond all question, the protection of the colored race in civil rights is essential to complete the abolition of…”

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Beyond all question, the protection of the colored race in civil rights is essential to complete the abolition of Slavery; but the protection of the colored race in political rights is not less essential, and the power is as ample in one case as in the other.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that protecting the civil and political rights of the colored race is essential for true abolition of slavery.

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