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Hace 4 días · Hardcover, 464 pp. $32.00. Reviewed by Tim Talbott. Over fifty years after the second of David Herbert Donald’s two-volume biography of Massachusetts senator and abolitionist Charles Sumner rolled off the presses, a new examination of the Bay State’s famous political son is now available.
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Hace 5 días · Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner risked his life for the sake of Kansans’ freedom. On May 22, 1856 — 168 years ago — he suffered a beating at the hands of unhinged South Carolina Rep. Preston...
Hace 5 días · The Great Abolitionist is the first major biography of Charles Sumner to be published in over 50 years. Acclaimed historian Stephen Puleo relates the story of one of the most influential non-presidents in American history with evocative and accessible prose, transporting readers back to an era when our leaders exhibited true courage ...
Hace 5 días · The fight between Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner in the United States Congress was a pivotal moment in American history that highlighted the deep divisions and tensions over the issue of slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. The incident, which took place on May 22, 1856, on the floor of the Senate chamber, captured the attention of the nation and symbolized the violent clash ...
Hace 4 días · There was no 19th-century Englishman who had a more confident belief in the future of America than Cobden. His correspondence with Charles Sumner, an American statesman and abolitionist, provided an important unofficial contact between Britain and the United States.
Hace 3 días · Bledsoe defended the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, justified slavery as compatible with the Bible, and argued for the right of secession. In the excerpt below, he refutes a speech by Charles Sumner, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who had denounced the Fugitive Slave Law.
