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Young Charles Sumner and the Legacy of the American Enlightenment, 1811-1851.(Book Review)-

Publication: Civil War History
Publication Date: 01-MAR-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Young Charles Sumner and the Legacy of the American Enlightenment, 1811-1851.(Book Review)-(book review)

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By Anne-Marie Taylor. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. Pp. 480. $45.00.)

This biography of Charles Sumner, up to his election as antislavery senator from Massachusetts, refutes David Donald's "revisionist"-tinged volumes. Anne-Marie Taylor sets out to remedy what she believes to be a basic lack in Donald's work, his failure to place Sumner in the context of New England's, especially Harvard's, intellectual and artistic life at the time of his maturing. Sumner learned from his father, and later his teachers at Harvard, to believe that human society could be perfected, and that the individual was obligated to work toward this ideal. In Sumner, belief in a natural law philosophy, which stressed service to a...

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