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Here again justice to the freedman becomes a necessity.
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Sumner argues that ensuring justice for freedmen is essential in the context of post-Civil War America.
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Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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