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, ...
In this lithograph by J.L. Magee, South Carolina Rep. Preston Brooks beats abolitionist Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner in the Senate chamber, 1856. In Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation, the ...
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