Caning of Charles Sumner Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War

Name: Caning of Charles Sumner Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780801894695

ISBN-10: 0801894697

ISBN-13: 9780801894695

Edition: 2010

Authors: Williamjames Hull Hoffer

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A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-South cultural divide of the mid-nineteenth century. Williamjames Hull Hoffer's vivid account of the brutal act demonstrates just how far the factions had drifted apart and explains why the coming war was so difficult to avoid.Sumner, a noted abolitionist and gifted speaker, was seated at his Senate desk on May 22, 1856, when Democratic Congressman Preston S. Brooks approached, pulled out a gutta-percha walking stick, and struck him on the head. Brooks continued to beat the stunned Sumner, forcing him to the ground and repeatedly striking him even…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 5/3/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English



Introduction



One Minute



A Machine That Would Go of Itself?



Immediate Aftermath



A Long, Winding Road



Honor, Idealism, and Inevitability


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Essay on Sources


Index