For 45 years, Longfellow wrote and hosted luminaries, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Sumner, an abolitionist senator. Today, the house is owned and operated by the ...

THE GREAT ABOLITIONIST: Charles Sumner and ... an enraged South Carolina House Representative Preston Brooks reacted to one by savagely caning the unarmed Sumner who, trapped behind his desk ...