Author: New England Emigrant Aid CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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History of the New-England Emigrant Aid Company
Author: New England Emigrant Aid CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Memorial of the New England Emigrant Aid Company
Author: History of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. With a report on its future operations, etc
Author: New England Emigrant Aid Company (BOSTON, Massachusetts)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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The New England Emigrant Aid Company, and Its Influence, Through the Kansas Contest, Upon National History
Author: Eli ThayerTo the People of the United States
Author: New England Emigrant Aid CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
A report to the Senate of the United States by the Chairman of the Committee on Teritories on March 12, 1856, contained many errors and misrepresentations and this open letter denied publically those errors by stating the position and work of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. The text is similar to "To the honorable Senate of the United States" and "To the people of Missouri" by the same group. It was signed by William B. Spooner, J.M.S. Williams, Eli Thayer, S. Cabot, Jr., R.P. Waters, L.B. Russell, C.J. Higginson, and Edward E. Hale.
Bleeding Kansas
Author: Nicole EtchesonPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700614923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Few people would have expected bloodshed in Kansas Territory. After all, it had few slaves and showed few signs that slavery would even flourish. But civil war tore this territory apart in the 1850s and 60s, and "Bleeding Kansas" became a forbidding symbol for the nationwide clash over slavery that followed. Many free-state Kansans seemed to care little about slaves, and many proslavery Kansans owned not a single slave. But the failed promise of the Kansas-Nebraska Act-when fraud in local elections subverted the settlers' right to choose whether Kansas would be a slave or free state-fanned the flames of war. While other writers have cited slavery or economics as the cause of unrest, Nicole Etcheson seeks to revise our understanding of this era by focusing on whites' concerns over their political liberties. The first comprehensive account of "Bleeding Kansas" in more than thirty years, her study re-examines the debate over slavery expansion to emphasize issues of popular sovereignty rather than slavery's moral or economic dimensions. The free-state movement was a coalition of settlers who favored black rights and others who wanted the territory only for whites, but all were united by the conviction that their political rights were violated by nonresident voting and by Democratic presidents' heavy-handed administration of the territories. Etcheson argues that participants on both sides of the Kansas conflict believed they fought to preserve the liberties secured by the American Revolution and that violence erupted because each side feared the loss of meaningful self-governance. 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. As Etcheson demonstrates, the struggle over the political liberties of whites may have heightened the turmoil but led eventually to a broadening of the definition of freedom to include blacks. Her insightful re-examination sheds new light on this era and is essential reading for anyone interested in the ideological origins of the Civil War.
The Kansas Journey
Author: Jennie A. ChinnPublisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423624130
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Kansas, Its Interior and Exterior Life
Author: Sara Tappan Lawrence RobinsonPublisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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For God and Mammon
Author: Gunja SenGuptaPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820317793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book explores the multiple dimensions of the antebellum Kansas tempest as a microcosm of the larger history of sectional conflict and reconciliation. It shows, through an examination of the antislavery ends and means of the American Missionary Association, the American Home Missionary Society, and the New England Emigrant Aid Company, that the northeastern free-state contingent in Kansas represented a wide spectrum of opinion on black bondage, ranging from racially egalitarian Christian abolitionist absolutism on the one hand to free labor pragmatism on the other. Nevertheless, Yankee confrontations with the allegedly parallel unprogressive forces of "slavery, rum, and Romanism" in the territory evoked compelling public images of civilization and savagery, freedom and dependence that broadened the appeal of antislavery politics in the free North on the eve of the Civil War. At the same time, For God and Mammon analyzes the ideology and dynamics of proslavery activism in Kansas, demonstrating how clashing conceptions of republicanism and capitalism helped frame the terms of debate over slavery. Finally, the book argues that the sharp polarities of slavery discourse in Kansas obscured a more ambiguous reality. Southerners resorted to fraudulent voting and appealed to anti-abolitionism, nativism, and racism not only to battle Northern elements but to score points over their proslavery whiggish rivals as well. Schisms within a competitive, business-minded pro-Southern elite contained the seeds of Mammon's triumph over political ideology in some proslavery circles and facilitated a sectional truce at the African American's expense even before the slavery question had faded from thepolitical horizon of the territory.
The New England Emigrant Aid Company
Author: Samuel A. JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description