Charles Sumner

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Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War working to destroy the Confederacy, free all the slaves, and keep on good terms with Europe.

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portrait, The Barbarism of Slavery, Alabama case

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Famous People: S, US Senators, Famous People of Massachusetts

Source

Wilbur F. Gordy A History of the United States for Schools (New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916) 289

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