Caning of Charles Sumner
The Beating of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts. The attack was in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders, including a relative of Brooks, Andrew Butler. The beating nearly killed Sumner and contributed significantly to the country's polarization over the issue of slavery. It has been considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" and the use of violence that eventually led to the Civil War.
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Caning of Charles Sumner
The Beating of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts. The attack was in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders, including a relative of Brooks, Andrew Butler. The beating nearly killed Sumner and contributed significantly to the country's polarization over the issue of slavery. It has been considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" and the use of violence that eventually led to the Civil War.
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Die Brooks-Sumner-Affäre (engl ...... wandten Brooks’ erwähnt hatte.
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La bastonatura di Charles Sumn ...... uerra di secessione americana.
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The Beating of Charles Sumner, ...... entually led to the Civil War.
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حادثة ضرب تشارلز سومنر، أو قضي ...... قيام الحرب الأهلية الأمريكية.
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Representative Preston Brooks ...... the younger Sumner's actions.
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Die Brooks-Sumner-Affäre (engl ...... wandten Brooks’ erwähnt hatte.
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La bastonatura di Charles Sumn ...... uerra di secessione americana.
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The Beating of Charles Sumner, ...... entually led to the Civil War.
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حادثة ضرب تشارلز سومنر، أو قضي ...... قيام الحرب الأهلية الأمريكية.
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Bastonatura di Charles Sumner
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Brooks-Sumner-Affäre
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Caning of Charles Sumner
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ضرب تشارلز سومنر
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