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Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
"A thorough recounting of the great legislator's life and deed... unlikely to be bettered anytime soon... Tameez is expert at explaining Sumner's legal thought... One cannot help wishing we had a Charles Sumner in Washington today."
--The New York Times
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
"A thorough recounting of the great legislator's life and deed... unlikely to be bettered anytime soon... Tameez is expert at explaining Sumner's legal thought... One cannot help wishing we had a Charles Sumner in Washington today."
--The New York Times
Release Date: Jun 9, 2026
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the proslavery congressman Preston Brooks in 1856. This violent episode has obscured Sumner's status as the most passionate champion of equal rights and multiracial...
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the proslavery congressman Preston Brooks in 1856. This violent episode has obscured Sumner's status as the most passionate champion of equal rights and multiracial...
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