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S4 E4: The Second Revolution

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Those Members of Congress Were Among the Leaders of the Radical Republicans

Members of congress were among the leaders of the radical republicans, as they were called. They pushed for what w e b du boyce would later call abolition democracy. Their leader in the senate was charles sumner, a bostonian in his fifties and the congresss most uncompromising defender of equal rights for black people.

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