1864 CHARLES SUMNER. Thirteenth Amendment, Slavery and Freedmen Right to Testify in Court. Revival

1864 CHARLES SUMNER. Thirteenth Amendment, Slavery and Freedmen Right to Testify in Court. RevivalA 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

with morocco label on the spine and very subtle blind gold tooling

Each of the volumes was issued individually and covers unique publications of the period

I'll stick with it

intent on imposing “a restraining fear” on his proslavery neighbors

Binding generally solid

of Pennsylvania

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It's been a few years since we have acquired a copy of this fine work

where he had been in medical school

this is Andrew Murray's Keswickian edition of the puritan

he defends his view of the Gospels and the resultant theology

whose parents had opened their home to the traveling Methodist ministers