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Preston Smith Brooks (August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857) was an American slaveholder, politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina, serving from 1853 until his resignation in July 1856 and again from August 1856 until his death.
Among the most polarizing figures individuals in the decade before the American Civil War, Congressman Preston Smith Brooks took it upon himself to defend the slaveholding south through word and action. Brooks was born into a prominent family in Edgefield, South Carolina on August 5, 1819.
The caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts.
13 de nov. de 2009 · Southern Congressman Preston Brooks savagely beats Northern Senator Charles Sumner in the halls of Congress as tensions rise over the expansion of slavery.
En 1856, ante el aumento de la tensión por el futuro de la esclavitud en los Estados Unidos en vísperas de la guerra de Secesión, el representante de Carolina del Sur Preston Brooks propinó una brutal paliza al senador por Massachusetts Charles Sumner con un bastón en la Cámara del Senado por haber dado un discurso en contra de la esclavitud.
12 de oct. de 2013 · On May 22, 1856, pro-slavery Congressman Preston Brooks (D-SC) strode into the U.S. Senate Chamber and beat anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) repeatedly with a gold-topped walking...
Library of Congress. To gain Senate approval of what would become the Thirteenth Amendment, Sumner collaborated with a number of antislavery activists and forged a unique alliance with members of the Women’s National Loyal League.
