[The assault] in the U.S. Senate chamber on Senator Sumner.

Charles Sumner

[The assault] in the U.S. Senate chamber on Senator Sumner.

5/26/1856

Historical Illustration

The New York Public Library features an 1856 historical illustration that depicts the caning of Senator Charles Sumner (LR-MA)--the leader of the anti-slavery forces in Massachusetts and the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate--by fellow Senator Preston Brooks on the senate floor.

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New York Public Library (Digital Schomburg Collection)

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