Author: Sara Tappan Doolittle ROBINSONPublisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Kansas; its interior and exterior life. Including a full view of its settlement, political history, social life, climate, soil, productions, scenery, etc. By Sara T. L. Robinson
Author: Sara Tappan Doolittle ROBINSONPublisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Kansas; Its Interior and Exterior Life
Author: Sara Tappan Lawrence RobinsonPublisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Kansas territorial days by the wife of a politically active abolitionist, and governor of the "Free-State" of Kansas, Topeka government, which was disallowed by the United States in 1856. The book concerns the events around this Free State government, the battle in Lawrence, and Robinson's ousting and imprisonment. Robinson would later be nominated and win the official Territorial governorship in 1859.
Stark Mad Abolitionists
Author: Robert K. SuttonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510716513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality. In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, had just ordered a young African American man who had escaped from slavery in Virginia and settled in Boston to be returned to bondage in the South. An estimated fifty thousand citizens rioted in protest. Observing the scene was Amos Adams Lawrence, a wealthy Bostonian, who “waked up a stark mad Abolitionist.” As quickly as Lawrence waked up, he combined his fortune and his energy with others to create the New England Emigrant Aid Company to encourage abolitionists to emigrate to Kansas to ensure that it would be a free state. The town that came to bear Lawrence’s name became the battleground for the soul of America, with abolitionists battling pro-slavery Missourians who were determined to make Kansas a slave state. The onset of the Civil War only escalated the violence, leading to the infamous raid of William Clarke Quantrill when he led a band of vicious Confederates (including Frank James, whose brother Jesse would soon join them) into town and killed two hundred men and boys. Stark Mad Abolitionists shows how John Brown, Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, Sam Houston, and Abraham Lincoln all figure into the story of Lawrence and “Bleeding Kansas.” The story of Amos Lawrence’s eponymous town is part of a bigger story of people who were willing to risk their lives and their fortunes in the ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.
The Annals of Kansas
Author: Daniel Webster WilderPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
KANSAS REFERENCE: DOES NOT CIRCULATE!
Uncertain Climes
Author: Joseph GiacomelliPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226824438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
"Drawing on the writings of scientists, foresters, surveyors, and settlers, Joseph Giacomelli shows that climate uncertainty infused Gilded Age thinking about economic growth and national development. He details a multivalent discourse on climate that infused both practical concerns and overarching political themes, not least Manifest Destiny. Giacomelli makes it clear that uncertainty drew together concerns about human-induced climate change and cultural worries about the sustainability of capitalist expansionism. A rising belief in scientific positivism was matched by a growing awareness of the illusory nature of scientific certainty; faith in society's power to improve landscapes tussled with persistent fears of environmental catastrophe"--
Handbook to Kansas Territory and the Rocky Mountains Gold Region ... Maps
Author: James REDPATH (Abolitionist and HINTON (Richard J.))Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
New Towns in the New World
Author: David Allan HamerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231066204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Hamer has written a broad, comparative overview of the evolution of British-derived urban traditions in four former colonies: the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Kansas, Its Interior and Exterior Life
Author: Sara Tappan Lawrence RobinsonPublisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Frontier Feminist
Author: Marilyn S. BlackwellPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This comprehensive portrait of nineteenth-century reformer Clarina Howard Nichols uncovers the fascinating story of a complex woman and reveals her important role in women's rights, antislavery, and westward expansion.