Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 09 (of 20)

A collection of Senate speeches, resolutions, and essays presenting legal and moral responses to a large-scale internal rebellion, concentrating on the use of sovereign and belligerent powers to confiscate rebel property and to liberate enslaved people. The volume treats fugitive cases, the role of advancing armies in freeing the enslaved, taxation measures on cotton and slave-owners, and the framing of provisional governments. It also considers state admission and abolition measures for a separated territory, the competency of testimony by persons of color, naval prize and blockade law, and administrative reforms. Legal argument and citations to international and judicial authorities guide proposed legislation and wartime policy.