Complete American Slavery: A Reprint Of An Article On "uncle Tom's Cabin," Best Choice [bWoipOt9]

Inscription to ffep: “His Excellency Sylvain van der Weyer from the author”. Van der Weyer served as the Belgian Minister to the Court of St. James’s.

The Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner delivered his famous anti-slavery speech, “The Crime Against Kansas”, to the United States senate over a period of two days in 1856. In it, he addressed whether Kansas should be admitted to the union as a slave state, and he attacked two senators in particular, Stephen A. Douglas and Andrew Butler, for their pro-slavery stance. Two days later, a relative of Butler’s beat Sumner with a cane in response to Sumner’s attacks on Butler.