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Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) Protection of Freedmen: Actual Condition of the Rebel States. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts ...

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02095.23 Author/Creator: Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Pamphlet Date: 1865 Pagination: 15 p. ; 24.4 x 15.5 cm. Order a Copy

Title continues, "... on the bill to maintain the freedom of the inhabitants in the states declared in insurrection and rebellion by the proclamation of the President of July 1, 1862; delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 20, 1865." Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, Washington, D.C.

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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