Book/Printed Material The barbarism of slavery: speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state, in the United States Senate, June 4, 1860 African American Pamphlet Collection copy
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Image 1 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy THE Barbarism of Slavery [NEW EDITION—WITH A DEDICATION.] BY HON. CHARLES SUMNER.- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 2 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY: SPEECH OF HON. CHARLES SUMNER, ON THE Bill for the Admission of Kansas as a Free State, In the United States Senate, June 4, 1860. NEW EDITION—WITH A…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 3 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 4 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy DEDICATION. To the Young Men of the United States, I dedicate this new edition of a Speech on the Barbarism of Slavery, in token of heartfelt gratitude to them for brave and…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 5 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy Therefore, there are two apparent rudiments to this war. One is Slavery and the other is State Rights. But the latter is only a cover for the former. If Slavery were out…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 6 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy SPEECH. Mr. President: Undertaking now, after a silence of more than four years, to address the Senate on this important subject, I should suppress the emotions natural to such an occasion, if…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 7 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 6 to hear. Besides, what am I—what is any man among the living or among the dead—compared with the Question before us? It is this alone which I shall discuss, and I…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 8 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 7 thoroughly. It must be exhibited as it is; alike in its influence and in its animating character, so that not only its outside but its inside may be seen. This is…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 9 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 8 mighty arch, which by its concentrated strength is able to sustain our social superstructure, consists in the black marble block of African Slavery. Knock that out,” he says, “and the mighty…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 10 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 9 To the first I oppose the essential Barbarism of Slavery, in all its influences, whether high or low, as Satan is Satan still, whether towering in the sky or squatting in…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 11 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 10 condensed in this sententious judgment. Language is feeble to express all the enormity of this institution, which is now vaunted as in itself a form of civilization, “ennobling” at least to…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 12 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 11 and Civilization there is an essential incompatibility. If you are for the one, you can not be for the other; and just in proportion to the embrace of Slavery is the…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 13 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 12 I. In presenting the Character of Slavery, there is little for me to do, except to allow Slavery to paint itself. When this is done, the picture will need no explanatory…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 14 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 13 by whom he may be bartered, leased, mortgaged, bequeathed, invoiced, shipped as cargo, stored as goods, sold on execution, knocked off at public auction, and even staked at the gaming-table on…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 15 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 14 sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth: — that fight we hold By His donation; but man over men He…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 16 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 15 for the nurture and education of the human family, and which constitutes an essential part of Civilization itself. And yet, by the law of Slavery—happily beginning to be modified in some…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 17 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 16 he must work for his master, and not for himself. Alas! by such a fallacy, is a whole race pauperized! And yet this transaction is not without illustrative example. A solemn…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 18 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 17 profit of the master, and constituting its ever-present motive power, which is simply to compel the labor of fellow-men without wages! If the offense of Slavery were less extended; if it…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 19 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 18 were not derived from any of those countries which recognized the Roman law, while this law, even before the discovery of this continent, had lost all living efficacy. It is not…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 20 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 19 authority over the person of his slave—over his conjugal relations—over his parental relations—over the employment of his time—over all his acquisitions, should be recognized, while no generous presumption inclines to Freedom,…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 21 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 20 and in the origin of that law. And here I might stop without proceeding in this argument, for on the letter of the law alone Slavery must be condemned. But the…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 22 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 21 more strongly in each decennial census, until in 1850, the population of the Slave States, swollen by the annexation of three foreign Territories, Louisiana, Florida, and Texas, was only 9,612,769, while…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 23 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 22 to the census of 1850, the value of property in the Free States was $4,107,162,198, while in the Slave States it was $2,936,090,737; or, if we deduct the asserted property in…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 24 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 23 land, 54,970,427; cash value of farms, $1,117,649,649; average value per acre, $6.18; value of farming implements $65,345,625. Such is the mighty contrast. But it does not stop here. Careful tables place…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 25 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 24 States had an amount valued at $1,377,199,968; the Slave States an amount valued only at $410,754,992; that of the persons engaged in trade, the Free States had 136,856, and the Slave…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 26 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 25 $4,028,568; the difference between the two deficits being $2,813,372. The Slave States did not pay one third of the expense of transporting their mails; and not a single Slave State paid…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 27 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 26 The number of graduates in the Free States was 47,752, in the Slave States, 19,648; the number of ministers educated in Slave colleges was 747, in the Free colleges, 10,702; and…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 28 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 27 a third larger than Ohio, has 67,353 pupils in her public schools, while the latter State has 484,153. Arkansas, equal in age and size with Michigan, has only 8493 pupils at…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 29 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 28 57,721 volumes. In the Free States the Sunday-school libraries are 1713, and contain 478,858 volumes; in the Slave States they are 275, and contain 63,463 volumes. In the Free States the…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 30 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 29 States publish 20,245,360; the Free States, 57,478,768. And of scientific journals, the Slave States publish 372,672; the Free States, 4,521,260. Of these latter, the number of copies published in Massachusetts alone…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 31 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 30 during the last three years, 1857, 1858, and 1859. In the Free States there were 9560; in the Slave States, 1449—making a difference of 8111 in favor of Freedom. The number…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 32 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 31 the value of lands in Slave States adjoining Freedom is advanced, while the value of corresponding lands in Free States is diminished. The effects of Freedom and Slavery are reciprocal. Slavery…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 33 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 32 occupy nearly the same extent of longitude; embrace nearly the same number of square miles; enjoy kindred advantages of climate, being equally removed from the cold of the North and the…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 34 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 33 II. From the consideration of Slavery in its practical results, illustrated by the contrast between the Free States and Slave States, I pass now to another stage of the argument, and…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 35 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 34 same day, all his worth is taken away, might seem inconsistent with exceptions which we gladly recognize; but alas I it is too clear, both from reason and from evidence, that,…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 36 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 35 place describes it in words which every Slave-master should know, as— “The state of war continued between a lawful conqueror and his captive. . . . So opposite to the generous…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 37 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 36 well I know that the conscience which speaks so powerfully to the solitary soul, is often silent in the corporate body, and that in all ages and countries, numbers, when gathered…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 38 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 37 of his forehead; has been shot in the hind parts of his legs; is marked on his back with the whip. Apply to Robert Beasley, Macon, Ga.” Holes in the ears;…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 39 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 38 Justice Ruffin, of North-Carolina, who, in a solemn decision, thus portrays, affirms, and deplores this terrible latitude: “‘The obedience of the slave,’ he says, ‘is the consequence only of uncontrolled authority…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Image 40 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 39 horrors of Slavery seem to be infinite, and each day, by the escape of its victims, they are still further attested, while the door of the vast prison-house is left ajar.…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1863
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Title
- The barbarism of slavery: speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state, in the United States Senate, June 4, 1860
Names
- Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- New-York, Published by the Young Men's Republican Union, 1863.
Headings
- - Slavery--United States--Speeches in Congresses
- - Kansas--Politics and government--1854-1861
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- - Also available in digital form.
- - LAC tnb 2020-10-06 no edits (1 card)
Medium
- iv, 80 p. 21 cm.
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- E449 .S952
- E449 .S952 Copy 2 Another copy.
- AC901 .M5 vol. 453, no. 10 Another copy.
- E185 .A254 container S, no. 283 Another copy.
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- 11012740
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- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Sumner, Charles