Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 10 (of 20)

This volume gathers speeches, essays, and letters presenting legal and moral arguments about wartime foreign relations, opposing foreign interference and the recognition of a slaveholding power, and analyzing the limits of neutrality and belligerent rights. It also addresses domestic policy during and after conflict, advocating emancipation, congressional authority over rebel states, protections for freed people, equal pay for Black soldiers, access to public transit, and the repeal or condemnation of fugitive-slave laws. Interspersed are Senate speeches, committee reports, public addresses, and personal letters on loyalty, reconstruction safeguards, and civic institutions such as the establishment of a free public library.