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1. www.jstor.org › stable › 3125037SUMNER: SLAVERY, RACE, AND IDEOLOGY IN - JSTOR

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   On May 22, 1856, Preston Smith Brooks, a South Carolinian congressman, assaulted a seated Charles Sumner, antislavery senator from Massachusetts, in the Senate chamber. Brooks rained blows on Sumner's head and shoulders with his cane while Representative Laurence M. Keitt, a secessionist colleague from South Carolina, kept others at bay. Brooks ...

2. www.wikiwand.com › de › Preston_BrooksPreston Brooks - Wikiwand

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   Preston Brooks Brooks war der erste Sohn einer der einflussreichsten Pflanzerfamilien South Carolinas. Er besuchte die Moses Waddel School in Willington und anschließend das South Carolina College , dessen er allerdings 1839 ohne Abschluss verwiesen wurde, weil er versucht hatte, seinen Bruder mit Waffengewalt aus dem Gefängnis zu befreien.

3. www.reddit.com › r › AskHistoriansHow and why did Preston Brooks get away with caning Charles ... -...

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   One of the people who listened to Sumner's speech on May 19 -he didn't go back for the second day, but heard of what Sumner said- was Preston Brooks, a congressman from South Carolina. Brooks was related to Andrew Butler. By no means a proslavery fanatic, at least by South Carolina standards, Brooks' lone previous claim to fame was a proposal ...

4. thehistoricpresent.com › tag › preston-brooksPreston Brooks – The Historic Present

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   Posts about Preston Brooks written by thehistoricpresent. In this our third post in our series examining the serious and striking comparisons between the U.S. in the months (and years) before the 1860 presidential campaign and the 2016 presidential campaign, we look at another event that preceded the 1860 presidential campaign but cast a long shadow over it: the caning of Massachusetts Senator ...

5. www.jstor.org › stable › 27567525Preston Smith Brooks: The Man and His Image

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   27. Mai 2017 · PRESTON SMITH BROOKS 299 record while frequently missing classes to visit the taverns in Columbia. During this formative period of his life he also became known as "a favorite with the ladies." Only his capable scholarship apparently saved him from being abruptly dismissed from college on several occasions.

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Peter_Brooks_(writer)Peter Brooks (writer) - Wikipedia

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   Peter Preston Brooks (born 1938) [1] is an American literary theorist who is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University and Andrew W. Mellon Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He has been Professor in the Department of English and School of ...