Waleed Shahid

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Waleed Shahid @_waleedshahid

In his home state of South Carolina, Brooks frequently received wooden canes as gifts from admiring white supremacists in the South's pro-slavery Democratic Party. — PolitiTweet.org

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Southern Democrats applauded Brooks and some threatened Sumner with an even "worse thrashing" if he kept up his rhetoric. The Richmond Enquirer, a leading Southern newspaper, described the assault as "good in conception, better in execution, and best of all in consequences." https://t.co/vMGSXgaKn4 — PolitiTweet.org

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The defense of Brooks' by Southern politicians pushed Northerners to feel that the Democratic Party and slavery itself were equally violent and reprehensible. One abolitionist explained the caning of Sumner would "awaken our people from the lethargy which they have sunk." — PolitiTweet.org

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