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Há 3 dias · The life and times of Charles Sumner: His boyhood, education, and public career
Há 5 dias · Hardcover, 464 pp. $32.00. Reviewed by Tim Talbott. Over fifty years after the second of David Herbert Donald’s two-volume biography of Massachusetts senator and abolitionist Charles Sumner rolled off the presses, a new examination of the Bay State’s famous political son is now available.
Há 5 dias · There was no 19th-century Englishman who had a more confident belief in the future of America than Cobden. His correspondence with Charles Sumner, an American statesman and abolitionist, provided an important unofficial contact between Britain and the United States.
- Asa Briggs
Há 4 dias · Bledsoe defended the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, justified slavery as compatible with the Bible, and argued for the right of secession. In the excerpt below, he refutes a speech by Charles Sumner, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who had denounced the Fugitive Slave Law.
Há 5 dias · The attack, in response to Sumner’s speeches against South Carolina’s senator during debates over whether Kansas should be admitted a slave state or free, was brutal. It took Sumner three ...
Há 2 dias · Sumner never fully embraced Darwinian ideas, and some contemporary historians do not believe that Sumner ever actually believed in social Darwinism. [57] The great majority of American businessmen rejected the anti-philanthropic implications of Sumner's theory.
Há 4 dias · View local obituaries in Sumner County, Tennessee. Send flowers, find service dates or offer condolences for the lives we have lost in Sumner County, Tennessee.
