Why Did Preston Brooks Attack Charles Sumner

question 14

Multiple Choice

Why did Preston Brooks attack Charles Sumner?

• A) Sumner had accused Brooks's uncle of keeping a slave as his mistress and lover.
• B) Sumner had an affair with one of Brooks's slaves.
• C) Sumner had physically attacked him earlier that year.
• D) The two men had been fighting since they were children about white men's access to slave women.

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