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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.
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.
Learn about Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery congressman who assaulted Senator Charles Sumner in 1856. Find out his background, political career, and death in this Civil War biography.
7 de fev. de 2019 · Preston Brooks, a pro-enslavement congressman from South Carolina, attacked Charles Sumner, an anti-enslavement senator from Massachusetts, with a cane in the Senate chamber in 1856. The violent incident intensified the sectional conflict and the split in America as it moved toward the Civil War.
13 de nov. de 2009 · Preston Brooks was a South Carolina representative who attacked Northern Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in 1856 over the slavery issue. The incident was a symbol of the growing hostility between the two camps in the prewar years.
Representative Preston Brooks was Butler's South Carolina kinsman. If he had believed Sumner to be a gentleman, he might have challenged him to a duel. Instead, he chose a light cane of the type used to discipline unruly dogs.
South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks brutally attacked Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner after Sumner’s 1856 speech denouncing slavery. Brooks reached Sumner’s desk, where the Senator was writing, head down, unaware of his presence.
