The Field Of Blood On The Congressional Floor

More of my latest crush Joanne B. Freemen, this time talking on the literal blood and guts in our Nations Capital’s Legislative Chamber in the Antebellum Period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7THddQgBCU

If you’re at all curious, but don’t want to invest the whole 40 minutes listen to at least the last 10 minutes or so when she talks about how the new technologies in communication in the era, ie the telegraph making what they did in the chamber known nationwide within the hour theoretically at least, and how the Congressmen soon became aware of that and began self editing and speaking to their base from the chamber, and how that is happening even today with Twitter as an example