CSPAN2 Book Discussion On Washington Brotherhood February 1, 2014
Took the lives of 700,000 americans, north and south and when we think about this civil war it is typically with the sense of the divisive relationship between north and south and the violence that captured the nation well before the war began. Men from the north and men from the south became a angry and angrier, challenging one another with words and with guns over the issue of slavery and washington d. C. Has long served as the epicenter of that discussion. When we think of the coming of the civil war almost common picture is of the caning of Charles Sumner, an anti slavery senator from mass...