Senator Preston Brooks of SC assaulting Senator Charles Sumner of MA during an antislavery debate 1856. Hand-colored woodcut

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Hand-colored woodcut

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Photo credit: © North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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