Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Betty Koed, a retired U.S. Senate historian, shared stories from her book "Scenes," including the 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA). Betty ...

Dive into Charles Sumner’s life and legacy, from his abolitionist roots in Boston to the “Crime Against Kansas” speech and the caning by Preston Brooks that galvanized the North. You hear how Sumner’s ...

Southern Chivalry: The caning of Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate. Credit: Wikimedia Commons On May 19 and 20, 1856, Charles Sumner of Massachusetts delivered his “Crime Against Kansas” speech in the ...

Northerners denounced the caning as an attack on Sumner’s right to free expression. Even if they thought Sumner’s abolitionism too radical – as most white Northerners did in 1856 – they believed a U.S ...

Stephen Puleo, The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union, St. Martin’s Press, 2024. Charles Sumner (1811-1874), like most Radical Republicans and abolitionists ...

"Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation," By Zaakir Tameez. Publisher: Holt, 629 pages. $29.59. John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the ...

Southern Chivalry: The caning of Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate. Credit: Wikimedia Commons In May 1856, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner rose on the Senate floor to denounce the law that opened ...

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Charles Sumner was an abolitionist senator who helped to write the post-Civil War Constitution and give birth to modern civil rights law. Zaakir Tameez, author of the new biography Charles Sumner: ...