Charles Sumner: “Is it right to leave these colored men to the military control of this…”

On the record

Is it right to leave these colored men to the military control of this Commissioner in order to enforce the obligation to labor?

Said by

Massachusetts

Source

Sumner questions the morality of subjecting colored men to military control for labor enforcement.

More from Charles Sumner

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.

Other voices in this conversation

Charles Sumner: “Is it right to leave these colored men to the military control of this Commissioner in order to enforce the obligation…”