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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08445.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1860 |
| Title | The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state. |
| Date | 1860 |
| Author | Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) |
| Document Type | Pamphlet |
| Content Description | Disbound. Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Senator Sumner declares, "When last I entered into this debate, it became my duty to expose the Crime against Kansas, and to insist upon the immediate admission of that Territory as a State of this Union, with a Constitution forbidding slavery. Time has passed; but the question remains." |
| Subjects | Kansas Missouri Bleeding Kansas Slavery African American History American Statesmen Abolition Statehood Westward Expansion State Constitution Government and Civics Law |
| People | Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | Slavery & Abolition |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |