About this episode
For this month's installment of Full Bio, we learn about the life of Senator Charles Sumner with Zaakir Tameez , author of the new biography Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation . Sumner was a fierce abolitionist and statesman from Massachusetts who was a pivotal advisor to President Lincoln and an influential force during the Civil War. In today's installment, we learn about Sumner's upbringing in a diverse neighborhood in Boston, and how that experience led him to become an abolitionist.