Charles Sumner 1874 Raleigh_NC 19th Century — a New

19th Century — a New Year's broadside in the old newsboy tradition

weathered character that suits the document's age

when the republic counted its assassinations and found

Emancipation Proclamation — Lincoln's executive stroke of January 1863

Charles Sumner 1874 Raleigh_NC 19th Century — a NewCharles Sumner 1874 a likeness of the Massachusetts senator rendered in the year of his death, when the great abolitionist voice of the chamber finally fell silent and the unfinished work of Reconstruction passed into other, lesser hands. 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 lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives,