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| Keywords: Charles Sumner - Brady-Handy.jpg Charles Sumner Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Brady-Handy Photograph Collection http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cwpbh 02793 CALL NUMBER LC-BH82- 5237 A <P P>P P between 1855 1865 Creator Mathew Brady PD LOC-image cwpbh 02793 Charles Sumner January 6 1811 March 11 1874 was an American politician and statesman from Massachusetts An academic lawyer but a powerful orator Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the U S Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction along with Thaddeus Stevens He jumped from party to party gaining fame as a Republican One of the most learned statesmen of the era he specialized in foreign affairs working closely with Abraham Lincoln He devoted his enormous energies to the destruction of what he considered the Slave Power that is the conspiracy of slave owners to seize control of the federal government and block the progress of liberty His severe beating in 1856 by South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks on the floor of the United States Senate helped escalate the tensions that led to war After years of therapy Sumner returned to the Senate to help lead the Civil War Sumner who specialized in foreign affairs was a leading exponent of abolishing slavery to weaken the Confederacy Although he kept on good terms with Abraham Lincoln he was a leader of the hard-line Radical Republicans This summary was created using Commons SumItUp en Charles_Sumner PD-old-100 Photographs by Mathew Brady Sumner Charles Conspiracies Charles Sumner Sumner Charles | ||||
