The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War by Stephen Puleo

The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War

Stephen Puleo

374 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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A Turning Point in American History, the Beating of U.S. Senator Charles Sumner and the Beginning of the War Over SlaveryEarly in the afternoon of May 22, 1856, ardent pro-slavery Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina strode into the Uni...

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