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Hace 1 día · Mark Tooley on July 5, 2024. Charles Sumner, best recalled for being caned nearly to death on the U.S. Senate floor in 1856 for an anti-slavery speech, was maybe America’s most important anti-slavery crusader after Lincoln. But more than anti-slavery, Sumner adamantly and, unusually for his time, advocated for human equality irrespective of race.
Hace 5 días · The Photophone. In May, 1878, Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, will known in connection with the telephone, announced before a scientific society in London Ins belief that it would be possible to hear...
Hace 1 día · Charles Sumner, the Senate's leading opponent of slavery. The American party system had been dominated by Whigs and Democrats for decades leading up to the Civil War. But the Whig party's increasing internal divisions had made it a party of strange bedfellows by the 1850s.
Hace 5 días · The Kansas-Nebraska Act explicitly repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´ in the lands acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase (except for Missouri).
Hace 3 días · Charles Sumner, a senator from Massachusetts and firm abolitionist during the Civil War era, famously believed that true emancipation could never be achieved unless all citizens were granted equal and indiscriminate access to public places and accommodations, government resources and opportunities.
Hace 2 días · Blacks in political leadership positions made one last attempt to become more influential Republicans. Charles Turpin became the first black in St. Louis to win public office in 1910 as constable, and re-election in 1914.
Hace 4 días · the brutal caning of Charles Sumner. Stephen Douglass' policy of "popular sovereignty" was discredited by "bleeding Kansas. The first part of Mexico to be settled by large numbers of Americans was Tijuana.
