Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.
Charles Sumner
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Charles Sumner was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading American advocate for the abolition of slavery, and after the war he was a key figure in the Reconstruction era, during which he and other Radical Republicans successfully fought to end slavery and ensure basic rights for Black Americans. He continued advocating for racial equality until his death, lobbying in his final days for a civil rights bill that served as a model for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Historians credit Sumner with coining the phrase "equality before the law," which he first used as part of an early attempt to integrate Boston's public school system.
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Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
Races, all alike entitled to human rights, V. 18; XVII. 134.
Proclamation of Emancipation, speech on the, IX. 191.
A single term for and choice by direct vote of the people, XIV. 278.
Popular Sovereignty, not infringed by prohibition of slavery in Territories, IV. 127.
Petition, refusal of right of, to colored persons, VI. 288.
Paul, St., his epistle to Philemon not an argument for slavery, V. 21-23.
Normal Schools, equal rights of colored fellow-citizens in, XX. 268.
Posterity should bear the burden of, XVII. 239.
Human Rights, sympathy with, everywhere, a letter expressing, III. 168.
Opposed to slavery and the Mexican War, I. 336.
Great institutions of liberty originated by, IV. 38; VIII. 41.
German Fellow-citizens, our, and a true Reconstruction, VIII. 238.
Fugitive Slave Acts, wrong and unconstitutionality of, X. 338.
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