Author:Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner
(1811–1874)

Charles Sumner

Works

• The True Grandeur of Nations (1845)
• Freedom National; Slavery Sectional (26 August 1852)
• The Landmark of Freedom. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner against the repeal of the Missouri prohibition of slavery north of 36° 30'. (21 February 1854)
• Duties of Massachusetts at this Crisis, a speech at the Republican Convention in Worcester (7 September 1854) (transcription project)
• The Crime against Kansas (19-20 May 1856)
• The Barbarism of Slavery (4 June 1860)
• “… concerning the creation of a bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney,” Congressional Globe, February 23, 1865.
• Letters to Carl Schurz:
  • 1862: July 5.
  • 1865: June 15, June 22, July 11, November 15, December 25.
  • 1871: September 25.
• The duel between France and Germany (26 October 1870; reprinted 1911) (external scan), gutenberg.org (text)

Works about Sumner

• "Charles Sumner" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1874)
• "Hymn at the Funeral Services of Charles Sumner" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1874)
• Eulogy by Carl Schurz, Boston Music Hall, April 29, 1874
• "The Public Career of Charles Sumner", by William Henry Smith, in The Dial, Vol. 15, Num. 170 (July 16, 1893)
• "To Charles Sumner" by John Greenleaf Whittier
• "To Charles Sumner" in Littell's Living Age, 128 (1655) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Encyclopedia articles

• "Sumner, Charles," by George William Curtis in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Sumner, Charles," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Sumner, Charles," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sumner, Charles," by Moorfield Storey in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1912)
• "Sumner, Charles," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Sumner, Charles," by Marcus W. Jernegan in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Sumner, Charles," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.