22 mayo 1856 año - Caning of Charles Sumner

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Caption: Photo of the real gold cane used by Preston Brooks to cane Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner, a Senator from Massachusetts who was a fierce abolitionist and known to be very blunt and straightforward, gave a speech in the Senate titled, “The Crime Against Kansas”. In the speech, Sumner insulted the Kansas-Nebraska Act, pro-slavery senators, and in particular, Senator Andrew Butler. A few days after the speech, Congressman Preston Brooks, a relative of Butler, walked into the Senate chamber with a cane and violently beat Charles Sumner for his speech. Sumner would be beaten unconscious and it took him 3 years to recover, and in the meanwhile the people of the North were utterly furious at the situation, and people in the South praised Brooks, even shipping him replacement canes. The caning of Charles Sumner symbolized how the battle over Kansas had reached its way all the way to Congress, literally, and set the stage for the Civil War by severely increasing tensions between the North and South.

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