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, ...

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

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 ...

Sumner deserves to be remembered for much more than being the victim of Brooks’s assault, argues Zaakir Tameez in his engrossing biography “Charles Sumner: The Conscience of a Nation.” Mr ...

Charles Sumner Was More Than Just a Guy Who Got Caned on the Senate Floor. A new biography of the Republican legislator details his legal mind and his personal struggles. Share full article.

THE GREAT ABOLITIONIST: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union. By Stephen Puleo. St. Martin’s Press. 464 pages. $32. When Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts died in ...

Senator Charles Sumner's outspoken support of abolition and the rights of emancipated blacks drew both praise and criticism — and almost cost him his life.

The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union Stephen Puleo. St. Martin’s, $32 (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-27627-8 ...