Título:
The great abolitionist : Charles Sumner and the fight for a more perfect union / Stephen Puleo.
ISBN:
9781250276278
Autor personal:
Edición:
First edition.
Información de publicación:
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.
©2024
Descripción física:
viii, 449 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contenido:
Prologue -- Part one: "Equality before the law" -- "We are becoming abolitionists... fast" -- "It touched me to the soul" -- Texas thunder -- A daring escape attempt -- A new doctrine is born -- Separate is inherently unequal -- "Truth in the end must prevail" -- Part two: Unstoppable peril -- Preserve the Union at any cost? -- "You have whipped Webster!" -- A fugitive slave returned, a new senator elected -- "Slavery is the source of all meanness here" -- The fugitive slave law assailed -- Kansas and Nebraska - "at the very grave of freedom" -- Bleeding Kansas -- The crime against Kansas -- Bleeding Sumner -- Part three: A nation split asunder -- The vacant chair -- A reelection and a shocking death -- The Dred Scott decision and trial by fire -- Return from exile -- "The barbarism of slavery" -- Lincoln's election and Southern secession -- "At last the war has come" -- "Elevate the condition of men" -- "The rebellion is slavery itself!" -- British treachery -- Part four: Death of slavery, death of a rebellion, death of a president -- Emancipation in the nation's capital -- "At last, the proclamation has come" -- "The result is certain - sooner or later" -- The thirteenth amendment and the end of the fugitive slave law -- "Are you for your country, or are you for the rebellion?" -- With malice toward none? -- Richmond has fallen -- "We are near the end at last" -- Part five: "For all everywhere who suffer from tyranny and wrong" -- Andrew Johnson's betrayal -- The fourteenth amendment: "freedom without suffrage is still slavery" -- "I begin to live!" -- "My home was hell..." -- "Guilty of all and infinitely more!" -- "There can be no backward step" -- "Good-bye and God bless you!" -- "Great champion of liberty".
Síntesis:
"The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero. In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart--when the very future of the nation hung in the balance--Charles Sumner's voice rang strongest, bravest, and most unwavering. Where others preached compromise and moderation, he denounced slavery's evils to all who would listen and demanded that it be wiped out of existence. More than any other person of his era, he blazed the trail on the country's long, uneven, and ongoing journey toward realizing its full promise to become a more perfect union. Before and during the Civil War, at great personal sacrifice, Sumner was the conscience of the North and the most influential politician fighting for abolition. Throughout Reconstruction, no one championed the rights of emancipated people more than he did. Through the force of his words and his will, he moved America toward the twin goals of abolitionism and equal rights, which he fought for literally until the day he died. He laid the cornerstone arguments that civil rights advocates would build upon over the next century as the country strove to achieve equality among the races. The Great Abolitionist is the first major biography of Charles Sumner to be published in over 50 years. Acclaimed historian Stephen Puleo relates the story of one of the most influential non-presidents in American history with evocative and accessible prose, transporting readers back to an era when our leaders exhibited true courage and authenticity in the face of unprecedented challenges"-- Provided by publisher.
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DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
on1375543253
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