1864 CHARLES SUMNER. Thirteenth Amendment, Slavery and Freedmen Right to Testify in Court. Sermons nearly 75% of the readership

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

very much operating within the revivalist spirit of the Great Awakening

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1864 CHARLES SUMNER. Thirteenth Amendment, Slavery and Freedmen Right to Testify in Court. Sermons nearly 75% of the readershipA 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