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Collection Reference Number GLC04726
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1870s 
Title Poetic tribute to Charles Sumner
Date 31 March 1875
Author Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)  
Document Type Miscellany
Content Description Titled "Sumner." Reads, "If to the master's plea he gave The vast contempt he felt, He saw a brother in the slave, with man as equal man he dealt."
Subjects Reform Movement  Slavery  African American History  Abolition  Poetry  Literature and Language Arts  
People Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)  
Place written Amesbury, Massachusetts
Theme Arts & Literature; African Americans; Slavery & Abolition
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information John G. Whittier was a noted Quaker poet and ardent abolitionist.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945