Charles Sumner: “But the statutes of the land assert the contrary,--they declaring that…”

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But the statutes of the land assert the contrary,--they declaring that only all white men are created equal.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques the existing statutes that contradict the principle of equality by limiting it to white men.

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Charles Sumner: “But the statutes of the land assert the contrary,--they declaring that only all white men are created equal.”