When Democracy Became a Bloodbath - January 29, 1861
Download MP3On January 29, 1861, Kansas became a free state—but only because the senators who would have blocked it had just walked out to join the Confederacy. The seven years of fraud, murder, and political violence known as Bleeding Kansas revealed uncomfortable truths about democracy that we're still grappling with today.
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Richard G. Backus
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