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February 28, 2025
What Didn’t Make It Into
THE GREAT ABOLITIONISTContinue ReadingNote from Stephen Puleo: I’ve been thrilled by the wonderful reader reactions to The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner’s Fight for a More Perfect Union, many of whom have written to let […]
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November 19, 2024
What Didn’t Make It Into
THE GREAT ABOLITIONISTContinue ReadingNote from Stephen Puleo: I’ve been thrilled by the wonderful reader reactions to The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner’s Fight for a More Perfect Union, many of whom have written to let […]
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August 22, 2024
What Didn’t Make it Into
THE GREAT ABOLITIONISTContinue ReadingNote from Stephen Puleo: I’ve been thrilled by the wonderful reader reactions to THE GREAT ABOLITIONIST: Charles Sumner’s Fight for a More Perfect Union, many of whom have written to let […]
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April 17, 2024
In his first major antislavery speech, U.S. Senator Charles Sumner establishes freedom and equality as the underpinnings of the nation’s founding
Continue ReadingNOTE FROM STEPHEN PULEO: I adapted this blog from my book, THE GREAT ABOLITIONIST: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union because I thought it was important to […]
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November 28, 2023
Christmas Day, 1863: Charles Sumner Visits the Wounded in Army Hospitals
Continue Reading(Excerpted from THE GREAT ABOLITIONIST: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union) Christmas Day, 1863, Washington, D.C. With his mother and sister miles away, and other Washington […]