The man behind the cane Preston Brooks, political violence, and the road to the civil war
"In 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the US Capitol, defending his family's honor and the rights of slaveholders. In beating Sumner unconscious, Brooks fueled a nationwide clash over slavery that ended in civil war. Souther...
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Oxford University Press,
[2026]
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