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The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War, A Turning Point in American History, the Beating of U.S. Senator Charles Sumner and the Beginning of the War Over Slavery Early in the afternoon of May 22, 1856, ardent pro-slavery Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina strode into the, The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War
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  • The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War
  • Written by author Stephen Puleo
  • Published by Westholme Publishing, 10/10/2012
  • A Turning Point in American History, the Beating of U.S. Senator Charles Sumner and the Beginning of the War Over Slavery Early in the afternoon of May 22, 1856, ardent pro-slavery Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina strode into the
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Introduction ix

Prologue xv

Part I

1 Bleeding Kansas 3

2 Omens of War 11

3 The Spread of Slavery 19

4 The Fugitive Slave Act 31

5 The Making of Charles Sumner 43

6 The Crime Against Kansas 59

Part II

7 Nothing But a Cane 75

8 A Son of South Carolina 80

9 Valuable Property 91

10 The Southern Code of Honor 99

Part III

11 The Caning 109

12 A Divided Response 118

13 Enter John Brown 136

14 Heated Debate in the Senate 149

15 An Opportunity for the Republican Party 156

16 Two Martyrs 163

17 Shamming Illness 175

18 The Empty Chair 186

19 The Election of 1856 199

20 The Most Popular Man in Massachusetts 207

21 The First Casualty 214

22 A Miscast President 226

Part IV

23 Dred Scott 237

24 Fire Treatment 251

25 The Lecompton Constitution 267

26 A House Divided 275

27 A New Saint 280

28 The Final Speech 291

29 President Lincoln 306

30 The Inevitability of War 313

Epilogue 323

Bibliographic Essay 339

Acknowledgments 361

Index 365


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