Charles Sumner: “I was chosen to the Senate for the first time immediately after the…”

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I was chosen to the Senate for the first time immediately after the passage of the infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner reflects on his election to the Senate following the controversial Fugitive Slave Act.

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Charles Sumner: “I was chosen to the Senate for the first time immediately after the passage of the infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.”