A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia

In "A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia," Hamilton W. Pierson delivers a poignant and urgent plea for the protection of African Americans in the post-Civil War South. Written in a clear and compelling prose style, Pierson'Äôs work intertwines personal narrative with a systematic collection of documented abuses suffered by freedmen, addressing bot...