Charles Sumner

American abolitionist and statesman (1811–1874)

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1811
Died: 1874
Works: 328

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Subjects for debate on every Friday evening, at American Mechanics' Hall
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Argument of Charles Sumner, Esq., before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, in the case of Sarah C. Roberts vs. the city of Boston, December 4, 1849

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: England
Active from: 1811
Active to: 1874

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 5
Total plays: 17

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,730x
The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
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Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
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Array programming with NumPy
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Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
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Quotes

“There is beauty in art, in literature, in science, and in every triumph of intelligence, all of which I covet for my country; but there is a higher beauty still—in relieving the poor, in elevating the downtrodden, and being a succor to the oppressed. There is true grandeur in an example of justice, in making the rights of all the same as our own, and beating down the prejudice, like Satan, under our feet.”
“The age of Chivalry has gone. An age of Humanity has come. The Horse, whose importance more than human, have the name to that early period of gallantry and war, now yields his foremost place to Man. In serving him, in promoting his elevation, in contributing to his welfare, in doing him good, there are fields of bloodless triumph, nobler far than any in which Bayard or Du Guesclin conquered.”
“The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.”
“Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.”

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Key facts

Preceded by: James M. Mason
Succeeded by: Simon Cameron
Born: ( 1811-01-06 ) January 6, 1811, Boston , Massachusetts, U.S.
Died: March 11, 1874 (1874-03-11) (aged 63), Washington, D.C. , U.S.
Resting place: Mount Auburn Cemetery
Party: Whig (1840–1848), Free Soil (1848–1854), Republican (1854–1870), Liberal Republican (1870–1872)
Spouse: Alice Hooper ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1866 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1873 )
Relatives: Sumner family
Education: Harvard University ( AB , LLB )

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date of death: 1874-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview

Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading American advocate for the abolition of slavery, and after the war he was a key figure in the Reconstruction era, during which he and other Radical Republicans successfully fought to end slavery and ensure basic rights for Black Americans. He continued advocating for racial equality until his death, lobbying in his final days for a civil rights bill that served as a model for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Historians credit Sumner with coining the phrase "equality before the law," which he first used as part of an early attempt to integrate Boston's public school system.

Sumner chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1861 to 1871, until he lost the position following a dispute with President Ulysses S. Grant over the attempted annexation of Santo Domingo. After breaking with Grant, he joined the Liberal Republican Party, spending his final two years in the Senate alienated from his party.

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