1864 CHARLES SUMNER. Thirteenth Amendment, Slavery and Freedmen Right to Testify in Court. Revival with morocco label on the

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

I'll stick with it

where he had been in medical school

he defends his view of the Gospels and the resultant theology

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

1864 CHARLES SUMNER. Thirteenth Amendment, Slavery and Freedmen Right to Testify in Court. Revival with morocco label on theA 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