In the pantheon of 19th-century freedom fighters, abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison share space with the martyred President Abraham Lincoln and the emancipated writer ...

Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts made a name for himself as an advocate of liberal causes. His outspoken support of abolition and the rights of emancipated blacks, and his calls for punishment ...

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