First Days Amongst the Contrabands

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. While the Southern leaders were thus defending Slavery, and the mass of Southern people were trying to tighten their chains, many Northerners were hotly declaring that Slavery had nothing to do with the war, nor would the war touch the divine institution of slavery. At the same time F ree dom, like the soul of John Brown, was steadily marching on; Charles Sumner, that great champion for justice and humanity, said.