Project Gutenberg 2015-02-19 Public domain in the USA. 87 Sumner, Charles 1811 1874 Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 18 (of 20) Produced by Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 18 (of 20)" by Charles Sumner is a collection of political speeches and writings focusing on civil rights and social justice, written in the late 19th century. The volume primarily features Sumner's powerful oratory as a U.S. Senator addressing significant issues of his time, especially surrounding the post-Civil War Reconstruction era and the rights of African Americans. Sumner’s works advocate for equality and justice, emphasizing the need for a uniform national law to protect human rights against state-level injustices. The opening of this volume sets the scene for Sumner's speeches delivered in the Senate between 1870 and 1871. He discusses critical topics such as the admission of Mississippi into Congress, the first African American senator, and the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. In his arguments, Sumner passionately conveys the importance of human rights over the outdated notions of state rights, arguing for civil equality and moral responsibility following the nation's recovery from the Civil War. By firmly asserting that equality is the foundation of the Republic, Sumner advocates for legislation that acknowledges and protects the rights of all citizens, thereby challenging the prevailing social and political norms of his era. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Slavery -- United States Speeches, addresses, etc., American E300 Text Browsing: History - American Browsing: Politics 671172 671171 2024-09-20T08:15:50.144272 2023-09-21T05:07:14.501916 text/html text/html 683646 2015-02-19T14:05:42 text/html; charset=utf-8 363094 2015-02-19T14:05:42 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 398180 2024-09-20T08:15:59.939209 application/epub+zip 406381 2024-09-20T08:15:51.650226 application/epub+zip 319999 2024-09-20T08:15:50.870269 application/epub+zip 607826 2024-09-20T08:16:06.128138 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 559728 2024-09-20T08:15:59.093195 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 471968 2022-09-22T03:36:17.771195 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 559244 559054 2024-09-20T08:15:48.512261 2023-09-21T05:07:13.047910 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 559535 2015-02-19T14:05:38 text/plain; charset=utf-8 204401 2015-02-19T14:05:42 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18330 2024-09-20T08:16:06.266141 application/rdf+xml 16426 2024-09-20T08:15:51.002219 image/jpeg 2624 2024-09-20T08:15:50.936231 image/jpeg 361148 2024-09-20T08:15:50.202282 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia