In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

When Charles Sumner spoke out against slavery in 1856, he incurred the violent wrath of congressman Preston Brooks. Wikimedia Commons At first it just seemed like a longwinded speech on the floor ...

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...

CHARLES SUMNER: Conscience of a Nation, by Zaakir Tameez A strange, special fate belongs to those famous Americans known not for what they did but for what was done to them.

Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts made a name for himself as an advocate of liberal causes. His outspoken support of abolition and the rights of emancipated blacks, and his calls for ...

Description. Author Stephen Puleo discussed the career and life of abolitionist politician Charles Sumner, who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874.

Zaakir Tameez is the author of “Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation,” to be released on June 3. On May 13, a man who made death threats against Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada) for her foreign ...

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...