Charles Sumner: “Confront the Mayflower and the Pilgrims with the potentates who…”

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Confront the Mayflower and the Pilgrims with the potentates who occupied such space in the world.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner challenges the comparison between the Pilgrims and the powerful figures of their time.

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Charles Sumner: “Confront the Mayflower and the Pilgrims with the potentates who occupied such space in the world.”