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Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
Nicole Etcheson
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| #340704 in Books | University Press of Kansas | 2004-01-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.06 x.82 x6.04l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 384 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Great history of the events leading to the civil war|By Casey|This is a good and very detailed book about the events in Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. The Act was designed to bring "popular sovereignty" to the decision of slavery. The residents of the territory would decide if the new state they were creating would be slave or free. Sounds very reasonable to t||“Prodigiously researched and boldly written, Etcheson’s study reopens the important story of ‘Bleeding Kansas’ in a thought provoking and compelling way.”—Michael Fellman, coauthor of That Terrible War: The Civil W
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-Nebrask...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era | Nicole Etcheson. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
