Charles Sumner 1874 Bloody_Mary_Art Eighth Avenue

Eighth Avenue

his uniform braid catching the light of a navy reinvented under fire

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The photograph holds the Bend at its tightest curve

Charles Sumner 1874 Bloody_Mary_Art Eighth AvenueCharles Sumner 1874. The Massachusetts senator rendered in the final year of his life, when the great abolitionist voice had thinned to a whisper and his Civil Rights Bill still languished in committee a portrait shadowed by the unfinished business of Reconstruction itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the