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The great abolitionist Charles Sumner and the fight for a more perfect union

"The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero. In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart--when the very future of the nation hung in the balance--Charles Sumner's voice rang strongest...

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Main Author: Puleo, Stephen (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Sumner, Charles, > 1811-1874.
Abolitionists > United States > Biography.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1845-1861.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Part one: "Equality before the law"
  • "We are becoming abolitionists... fast"
  • "It touched me to the soul"
  • Texas thunder
  • A daring escape attempt
  • A new doctrine is born
  • Separate is inherently unequal
  • "Truth in the end must prevail"
  • Part two: Unstoppable peril
  • Preserve the Union at any cost?
  • "You have whipped Webster!"
  • A fugitive slave returned, a new senator elected
  • "Slavery is the source of all meanness here"
  • The fugitive slave law assailed
  • Kansas and Nebraska - "at the very grave of freedom"
  • Bleeding Kansas
  • The crime against Kansas
  • Bleeding Sumner
  • Part three: A nation split asunder
  • The vacant chair
  • A reelection and a shocking death
  • The Dred Scott decision and trial by fire
  • Return from exile
  • "The barbarism of slavery"
  • Lincoln's election and Southern secession
  • "At last the war has come"
  • "Elevate the condition of men"
  • "The rebellion is slavery itself!"
  • British treachery
  • Part four: Death of slavery, death of a rebellion, death of a president
  • Emancipation in the nation's capital
  • "At last, the proclamation has come"
  • "The result is certain - sooner or later"
  • The thirteenth amendment and the end of the fugitive slave law
  • "Are you for your country, or are you for the rebellion?"
  • With malice toward none?
  • Richmond has fallen
  • "We are near the end at last"
  • Part five: "For all everywhere who suffer from tyranny and wrong"
  • Andrew Johnson's betrayal
  • The fourteenth amendment: "freedom without suffrage is still slavery"
  • "I begin to live!"
  • "My home was hell..."
  • "Guilty of all and infinitely more!"
  • "There can be no backward step"
  • "Good-bye and God bless you!"
  • "Great champion of liberty".

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