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    Summary of Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch's The Lincoln Conspiracy
    Summary of Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch's The Lincoln Conspiracy
    Summary of Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch's The Lincoln Conspiracy
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    Summary of Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch's The Lincoln Conspiracy

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    #1 When Abraham Lincoln was eighteen, he lost his sister, Sarah, who was two years older than he was. She had been his only companion after the death of their mother.

    #2 Lincoln’s boyhood was marked by tragedy and grief, and his adult life was characterized by shocks of violence and suffering even greater than those of his youth. He was haunted by the specter of death.

    #3 On May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks, a congressman from South Carolina, walked into the Senate chamber and confronted Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. He had delivered a speech three days earlier against the institution of slavery, and Sumner had insulted several of his South Carolina colleagues.

    #4 The assault was so violent that the cane broke in half, and Brooks kept beating Sumner with the half still in his hand. Don’t kill him! an older Senator cried out as the assault continued.

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    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateMay 24, 2022
    ISBN9798822525245
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      #1

      When Abraham Lincoln was eighteen, he lost his sister, Sarah, who was two years older than he was. She had been his only companion after the death of their mother.

      #2

      Lincoln’s boyhood was marked by tragedy and grief, and his adult life was characterized by shocks of violence and suffering even greater than those of his youth. He was haunted by the specter of death.

      #3

      On May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks, a congressman from South Carolina, walked into the Senate chamber and confronted Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. He had delivered a speech three days earlier against the institution of slavery, and Sumner had insulted several of his South Carolina colleagues.

      #4

      The assault was so violent that the cane broke in half, and Brooks kept beating Sumner with the half still in his hand. Don’t kill him! an older Senator cried out as the assault continued.

      #5

      The country is splitting apart. The debate over slavery is the main reason for the division. In 1776, when the Declaration of Independence first introduced Thomas Jefferson’s famous phrase All men are created equal, slavery existed in each of the thirteen states.

      #6

      The institution of slavery had a profound impact on Southern life, and the economic prosperity it generated was used to support the white landowning class and their beliefs of racial superiority.

      #7

      The battle between North and South over the status of slavery was particularly fierce in Congress in the late 1850s. With margins so thin in Congress, one of the most important issues was the status of slavery in western territories.

      #8

      The caning of Senator Charles Sumner was a huge scandal, and it proved the South’s propensity for violence. In the North, however, it was widely praised.

      #9

      The town of Ottawa, Illinois, was the site of a Senate debate between two candidates in 1858. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party had very different identities from those they have today.

      #10

      The two candidates arrived to a chaotic scene. The morning’s stampede of people on dry dirt roads had created a massive plume of dust, which blocked the candidates’ approach. The two teams had to fight their way through the throng in a

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