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Ku Klux Klan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views

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Preston Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • On May 22, 1856, Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner with his Gutta-percha wood walking cane in the Senate chamber because of a speech Sumner had made three days earlier, for singling out Brooks' relative, Andrew Butler.
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  • Preston Brooks
  • Preston Smith Brooks (August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857) was a Democratic Congressman from South Carolina, known for severely beating Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate with a cane in response to a perceived insult.
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scott dred slavery wikipedia History

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  • Dred Scott
  • Dred Scott (1799 – September 17, 1858), was a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully in St. Louis, Missouri for his freedom in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857.
  • His case was based on the fact that he and his wife Harriet Scott were slaves
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fugitive slave laws

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  • Fugitive slave laws
  • The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory.
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abolitionism

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  • Abolitionism was a movement in western Europe and the Americas to end the slave trade and set slaves free.
  • The slave system aroused little protest until the 18th century
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