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Sumner fue uno de los principales defensores de la abolición de la esclavitud para debilitar a la Confederación. Aunque se mantuvo en buenas relaciones con Abraham Lincoln, fue un líder de la línea dura de los republicanos radicales.
Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading American advocate for the abolition of slavery.
10 de abr. de 2024 · Charles Sumner was a U.S. statesman of the American Civil War period dedicated to human equality and to the abolition of slavery. A graduate of Harvard Law School (1833), Sumner crusaded for many causes, including prison reform, world peace, and Horace Mann’s educational reforms. It was in his long.
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Charles Sumner ( Boston, 6 de enero de 1811 - Washington D. C., 11 de marzo de 1874) fue un político y estadista estadounidense de Massachusetts. Un profesor universitario y un orador de gran alcance, Sumner fue el líder de las fuerzas antiesclavistas en Massachusetts y un líder de los republicanos radicales en el Senado de los Estados ...
Charles Sumner. Title Senator. War & Affiliation Civil War / Union. Date of Birth - Death January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874. Famous for his scathing criticism of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that provoked an attack upon himself in the Senate Chamber, Charles Sumner was a prominent voice of the anti-slavery North.
The caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts.
Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician, and lawyer. He was senator from Massachusetts from April 24, 1851 until his death. Career. Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts. He was a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War.
