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Why Did Preston Brooks Attack Charles Sumner

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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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