Title: Bleeding Kansas : contested liberty in the Civil War era /
Authors: Etcheson, Nicole
Publisher: University Press of Kansas,
Year: 2004
Subjects: United States.; Slavery Political aspects Kansas History; African Americans Civil rights Kansas History; Violence Kansas History; United States History Causes.; Kansas Politics and government; United States Politics and government; Kansas Race relations.; United States Race relations
Abstract: "Bleeding Kansas is a gripping account of events and people - rabble-rousing Jim Lane, zealot John Brown, Sheriff Sam Jones, and others - that examines the social milieu of the settlers along with the political ideas they developed. Covering the period from the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act to the 1879 Exoduster migration, it traces the complex interactions among groups inside and outside the territory, creating a comprehensive political, social, and intellectual history of this tumultuous period in the state's history."--Jacket.
Contents: The triumph of squatter sovereignty: the Kansas-Nebraska Act -- Freedom in the scale: the migration to Kansas territory -- All right on the hemp: the territorial legislature -- We are but slaves: the free-state movement -- The war commences in earnest: bleeding Kansas -- We fight to free white men: the Guerrilla War of 1856 -- Imposing a Constitution against their will: the Lecompton Constitution -- The language of a freeman: the english compromise -- A fruit of the Kansas tree: the Harpers Ferry raid -- I am here for revenge: the national civil war.