Video Clip 5: "The Crime Against Kansas" Speech (8:19) Stephen Puleo talked about Charles Sumner's "The Crime Against Kansas" speech to Congress on May 19 and 20, 1856 and the reaction.

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On May 21, 1856, a posse of 800 Southerners surrounded ... In Washington, anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner decried the spread of slavery to Kansas and accused Southerners of "raping and ...

Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts made a name for himself ... In a Senate speech in May 1856, he blasted the bill. Sumner accused the bill's authors, Senators Andrew P.