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Zaakir Tameez Charles Sumner (Hardback). He focuses on Sumner’s passionate struggle to end slavery, promote civil rights, and redeem the Constitution, and considers how his emphasis on the Constitution as a vehicle for the promotion of human rights - rather than simply the protection of individual liberty - was a radical interpretation that anticipated much contemporary progressive jurisprudence. Further DetailsTitle: Charles Sumner Condition: New Subtitle: Conscience of a Nation ISBN-10: 1250362555 Format: Hardback Author: Zaakir Tameez EAN: 9781250362551 ISBN: 9781250362551 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc Release Date: 07/21/2025 Genre: Biography Topic: Law & Politics, History Description: Known mainly as the abolitionist senator brutally caned within an inch of his life by slaveholder Preston Brooks on the Senate floor in 1856, Charles Sumner also played a pivotal role in advancing democracy and shaping the Constitution during Reconstruction, America’s “Second Founding.” During the Civil War, Sumner convinced Lincoln to emancipate the South’s slaves; stopped England from joining the conflict; and created the Freedmen’s Bureau. After the war, Sumner transformed America by authoring the Fourteenth Amendment and thereby embedding his slogan - 'equality before the law” - into the Constitution. Sumner was a martyr-like senator who put principles above politics at every Charles Sumner, Zaakir Tameez shows how this overlooked luminary is one of the most significant figures in the history of civil rights, as well as a visionary progenitor of modern progressive politics. He focuses on Sumner’s passionate struggle to end slavery, promote civil rights, and redeem the Constitution, and considers how his emphasis on the Constitution as a vehicle for the promotion of human rights - rather than simply the protection of individual liberty - was a radical interpretation that anticipated much contemporary progressive jurisprudence. The book also looks at Sumner’s social milieu, which included an extraordinary range of prominent thinkers and writers, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Henry Longfellow to Frederick Douglass. Finally, it is the first biography to identify Sumner as a gay man who struggled with his sexuality, and as a committed white ally who had deep relationships with Black community leaders.Eminently readable and meticulously researched, Charles Sumner promises to be a groundbreaking new portrait of this pivotal figure in American history. Item Height: 245mm Item Length: 170mm Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Width: 246mm Item Weight: 884g Type: United States Release Year: 2025 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
