Historical Speech: "No Compromise of Human Rights, No Disfranchisement on Account of Color," speech of Charles Sumner delivered in the Senate, Mar. 1866
Subject
Charles Sumner
Title
Historical Speech: "No Compromise of Human Rights, No Disfranchisement on Account of Color," speech of Charles Sumner delivered in the Senate, Mar. 1866
Date
3/1866
Type
Historical Speech
Description
The Library of Congress features an 1866 historical speech, given by Charles Sumner (LR-MA)--the leader of the anti-slavery forces in Massachusetts and the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate--to the United States Senate, that...
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Library of Congress
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“Historical Speech: "No Compromise of Human Rights, No Disfranchisement on Account of Color," speech of Charles Sumner delivered in the Senate, Mar. 1866,” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 9, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/802.