this is for florida, the smallest, but there are 13 volumes. thousands and thousands of pages in all. and this committee, joint committee dominated by republic gans, of course, who were a majority in congress at the time, took testimony in. washington on capitol hill in the capitol and also dispatched subcommittees across the south. most of the former confederate states, where testimony was taken in localities almost everywhere. a few states. it skipped a few states for reasons that can't get into and it. took testimony from hundreds and hundreds of witnesses. it was the first federal investigation that. i'm aware of the testimony from african-americans and also the first to my knowledge, the took testimony from women many women, both black and white, testified many african-americans. and much of that testimony is extremely poignant. there are witnesses who talk about walking 30 miles to get to the committee hearing room. there are witnesses who are murdered, it turns out, for testifying and the extraordinary forthrightness detail with which af