1864 CHARLES SUMNER. Thirteenth Amendment, Slavery and Freedmen Right to Testify in Court. Sermons men's traditions the commandments of

men's traditions the commandments of God

very much operating within the revivalist spirit of the Great Awakening

Shiphers & Parker in New York

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

An army of near fifty thousand veterans & British and foreign mercenaries

1864 CHARLES SUMNER. Thirteenth Amendment, Slavery and Freedmen Right to Testify in Court. Sermons men's traditions the commandments ofA 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