1864 CHARLES SUMNER. Thirteenth Amendment, Slavery and Freedmen Right to Testify in Court. Sermons very much operating within the

very much operating within the revivalist spirit of the Great Awakening

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

Shiphers & Parker in New York

to make annexation of Texas more attractive to the United States

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 very much operating within 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