Charles Sumner
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Charles Sumner CDV Sumner was a U.S. senator and leader of the antislavery
forces in Massachusetts sought to free all slaves. In 1856, a South Carolina
Congressman, Democrat Preston Brooks, nearly killed Sumner on the
Senate floor two days after Sumner delivered an intensely anti-slavery speech
called "The Crime Against Kansas". In the speech, Sumner
characterized the attacker's cousin, South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler,
a Democrat, as a pimp for slavery. Back marked E Anthony From Brady photographic
negative.
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