The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union (Puleo - WH) Print Chigger hopes the Union army

Chigger hopes the Union army will attack the withdrawing Confederates and end the war

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By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame

Written in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family

the Garretts have their homestead burned

The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union (Puleo - WH) Print Chigger hopes the Union armyby Stephen Puleo (Author) The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero. In the tempestuous mid 19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apartwhen the very future of the nation hung in the balanceCharles Sumners voice rang strongest, bravest, and most unwavering. Where others preached compromise and moderation, he denounced slaverys evils to all who would listen and demanded