Human Rights, sympathy with, everywhere, a letter expressing, III. 168.
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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Posterity should bear the burden of, XVII. 239.
Normal Schools, equal rights of colored fellow-citizens in, XX. 268.
Paul, St., his epistle to Philemon not an argument for slavery, V. 21-23.
Petition, refusal of right of, to colored persons, VI. 288.
Popular Sovereignty, not infringed by prohibition of slavery in Territories, IV. 127.
A single term for and choice by direct vote of the people, XIV. 278.
Proclamation of Emancipation, speech on the, IX. 191.
Races, all alike entitled to human rights, V. 18; XVII. 134.
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.
Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.
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