UNCOVERED: Preston brooks - Caught on Camera

When a congressman beat a senator unconscious, America confronted the limits of free speech

On May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks strode into the United States Senate chamber and beat Sen. Charles Sumner unconscious with a cane. Brooks, a South Carolina congressman, was retaliating for a speech Sumner had given condemning slavery and personally insulting a relative of Brooks.

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77 Historical Facts And Stories That Sound Too Strange To Be Real

In May 1845, the Franklin expedition set sail from England with 129 men aboard two ships in search of the Northwest Passage. Two months later, a passing vessel saw the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus off the coast of northern Canada — then they vanished. For 150 years, no…

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