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may 22, 1856 - Brooks-Sumner

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In the US senate when Rep Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner an abolitionist with a cane in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which be critizied slaveholders

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may 22, 1856
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~ 168 years ago