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The great abolitionist : Charles Sumner and the fight for a more perfect union / Stephen Puleo.

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ISBN: 9781250276278
ISBN: 1250276276
Physical Description: viii, 449 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.
Bibliography, etc.: Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-433) and index.
Formatted Contents: 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".