Portrait of Charles Sumner, oil on canvas by Edgar Parker, 1874.
Depicted here is the American statesman Charles Sumner, whose stalwart abolitionist advocacy saw him infamously brutalized on the floor of the Senate chamber by a pro-slavery Democrat. Although nearly killed, Sumner would return to health and to Congress, where he continued to lobby for the full and equal integration of Black Americans during Reconstruction.
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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