Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
Title Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War PDF eBook
Author David Donald
Publisher Sourcebooks, Inc.
Pages 434
Release 2009
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1402227191

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The Puliter-Prize winning classic and national bestseller returns!Emeritus Harvard Professor David Herbert Donald traces Sumner's life in this Pulitzer-Prize winning classic about a nation careening toward Civil War.

Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man

Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man
Title Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man PDF eBook
Author David Herbert Donald
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 408
Release 2016-03-22
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 150403404X

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A Pulitzer Prize winner's “magisterial” biography of the Civil War–era Massachusetts senator, a Radical Republican who fought for slavery’s abolition (The New York Times). In his follow-up to Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, acclaimed historian David Herbert Donald examines the life of the Massachusetts legislator from 1860 to his death in 1874. As a leader of the Radical Republicans, Sumner made the abolition of slavery his primary legislative focus—yet opposed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution for not going far enough to guarantee full equality. His struggle to balance power and principle defined his career during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Donald masterfully charts the senator’s wavering path from fiery sectarian leader to responsible party member. In a richly detailed portrait of Sumner’s role as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Donald analyzes how the legislator brought his influence and political acumen to bear on an issue as dear to his heart as equal rights: international peace. Authoritative and engrossing, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man captures a fascinating political figure at the height of his powers and brings a tumultuous period in American history to vivid life.

Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner
Title Charles Sumner PDF eBook
Author David Herbert Donald
Publisher Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Pages 1142
Release 1996-08-21
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Charles Sumner (1811–1874), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for two decades, was an ardent abolitionist; a founder of the Republican Party; chairman of the powerful Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1861 to 1871; chief of the Radical Republicans during the Civil War and Reconstruction; Lincoln's friend and, later, Grant's nemesis; as well as an advocate for universal equality, international peace, women's suffrage, and educational and prison reform. This edition combines for the first time Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War and Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man into one monumental biography that brings into brilliant focus the character and impact of one of the most controversial and enduring forces in American history.

A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with "statements" of Outrages Upon Freedmen in Georgia, and an Account of My Expulsion from Andersonville, Ga., by the Ku-Klux Klan

A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with
Title A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with "statements" of Outrages Upon Freedmen in Georgia, and an Account of My Expulsion from Andersonville, Ga., by the Ku-Klux Klan PDF eBook
Author Hamilton Wilcox Pierson
Publisher
Pages 44
Release 1870
Genre Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
ISBN

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The Caning of Charles Sumner

The Caning of Charles Sumner
Title The Caning of Charles Sumner PDF eBook
Author Williamjames Hull Hoffer
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages 164
Release 2010-05-03
Genre History
ISBN 9780801894695

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A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-South cultural divide of the mid-nineteenth century. Williamjames Hull Hoffer's vivid account of the brutal act demonstrates just how far the sections had drifted apart and explains why the coming war was so difficult to avoid. Sumner, a noted abolitionist and gifted speaker, was seated at his Senate desk on May 22, 1856, when Democratic Congressman Preston S. Brooks approached, pulled out a gutta-percha walking stick, and struck him on the head. Brooks continued to beat the stunned Sumner, forcing him to the ground and repeatedly striking him even as the cane shattered. He then pursued the bloodied, staggering Republican senator up the Senate aisle until Sumner collapsed at the feet of Congressman Edwin B. Morgan. Colleagues of the two intervened only after Brooks appeared intent on beating the unconscious Sumner severely—and, perhaps, to death. Sumner's crime? Speaking passionately about the evils of slavery, which dishonored both the South and Brooks’s relative, Senator Andrew P. Butler. Celebrated in the South for the act, Brooks was fined only three hundred dollars, dying a year later of a throat infection. Sumner recovered and served out a distinguished Senate career until his death in 1873. Hoffer's narrative recounts the caning and its aftermath, explores the depths of the differences between free and slave states in 1856, and explains the workings of the Southern honor culture as opposed to Yankee idealism. Hoffer helps us understand why Brooks would take such great offense at a political speech and why he chose a cane—instead of dueling with pistols or swords—to meet his obligation under the South’s prevailing code of honor. He discusses why the courts meted out a comparatively light sentence. He addresses the importance of the event in the national crisis and shows why such actions are not quite as alien to today’s politics as they might at first seem.

Young Charles Sumner and the Legacy of the American Enlightenment, 1811-1851

Young Charles Sumner and the Legacy of the American Enlightenment, 1811-1851
Title Young Charles Sumner and the Legacy of the American Enlightenment, 1811-1851 PDF eBook
Author Anne-Marie Taylor
Publisher Univ of Massachusetts Press
Pages 466
Release 2001
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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"This book challenges that long-standing view, offering in its stead the portrait of a man animated more by principle than by impulse or ambition. According to the author, Sumner's reform-minded politics, including his fervent commitment to put an end to slavery, must be understood in the context of a young nation still struggling to live up to the Enlightenment ideals embraced by its founders and embodied in its Constitution." "Focusing on the first forty years of Sumner's life, before he took public office, the volume traces the evolution of his character and thought among Boston's cultural elite."--Jacket.

The Question of Caste

The Question of Caste
Title The Question of Caste PDF eBook
Author Charles Sumner
Publisher
Pages 48
Release 1869
Genre Caste
ISBN

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