The field of blood violence in Congress and the road to civil war
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War. In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife wit...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Tobacco-stained rugs and Benjamin Brown French
- The Union incarnate for better and worse : the United States Congress
- The mix of men in Congress : meeting place of North and South
- The pull and power of violence : the Cilley-Graves duel (1838)
- Rules of order and the rule of force : dangerous words and the gag rule debate (1836-44)
- Fighting for the Union : the Compromise of 1850 and the Benton-Foote scuffle (1850)
- A tale of two conspiracies : the power of the press and the battle over Kansas (1854-55)
- Republicans meet the slave power : Charles Sumner and beyond (1855-61)
- Epilogue : "I witnessed it all"
- Appendix A. A word about words : party abbreviations and sectional loyalties
- Appendix B. A note on method : constructing fights and deconstructing emotions.
