1864 CHARLES SUMNER. Thirteenth Amendment, Slavery and Freedmen Right to Testify in Court. Sermons Exceptionally rare early American Baptist

Exceptionally rare early American Baptist publication with a large amount of primary material not available anywhere else

including The History of Dissenters

nearly 75% of the readership of The Liberator were black freemen in the North

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1864 CHARLES SUMNER. Thirteenth Amendment, Slavery and Freedmen Right to Testify in Court. Sermons Exceptionally rare early American BaptistA very rare and desirable report of Charles Sumner's 1864 speech before the United States Senate regarding the rights of former slaves to testify in court. Fascinatingly, Sumner provides a history of black marginalization from the courts, argues that it was never intentionally called for by the Constitution and that there is nothing in "colored persons" as a people that could be in any way used to argue that they should not be legitimate witnesses in