The caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks...
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Charles Sumner. G.W. Jacobs. ISBN 9780722284407. Hoffer, Williamjames Hull (2010). The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the...
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Laurence M. Keitt (category Censured or reprimanded members of the United States House of Representatives)
Republican Senator Charles Sumner. During the attack, Keitt brandished a pistol and cane to prevent other senators from coming to Sumner's aid. The second...
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Southern chivalry (category Culture of the Southern United States)
other forms of extrajudicial violence, most notably the caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks, and contributed to the militarization of the South by...
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Preston Brooks (category Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina)
abolitionist and Republican Senator Charles Sumner, whom he beat nearly to death; Brooks beat Sumner with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate in retaliation...
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Fire-Eaters (category Secession crisis of 1860–61)
for propaganda, among them "Bleeding Kansas" and the caning of Charles Sumner, to accuse the North of trying to abolish slavery immediately. Using effective...
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Argumentum ad baculum (redirect from Threat of force)
describe the 1856 caning of Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Senator, by one of his pro-slavery opponents, Preston Brooks, on the floor of the United States...
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as a weapon in his attack on Senator Charles Sumner. In the 1860s, gutta-percha was used to reinforce the soles of football players' boots before it was...
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Bleeding Kansas (category Political history of the United States)
August 14, 2019. Williamjames Hull Hoffer, The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War (2010) "3 Jun 1856, Page 2 - the...
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suffering at the hands of his political opponents Andrew Butler and Preston Brooks, now known as the Caning of Charles Sumner, and secondly because he...
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