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Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854–2000. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-1215-7. Reynolds, David (2005). John Brown, Abolitionist. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 0-375-41188-7. Thayer, Eli (1889). History of the Kansas Crusade: Its Friends and its Foes. New York: Harper and Brothers
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War.First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
Abolitionists included those who joined the American Anti-Slavery Society or its auxiliary groups in the 1830s and 1840s, as the movement fragmented. [ 64 ] : 78 The fragmented anti-slavery movement included groups such as the Liberty Party ; the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society ; the American Missionary Association ; and the Church ...
In this anti-abolitionist cartoon, Martin Van Buren struggles to span the gap dividing former Whig, Democratic, and Liberty members of the Free Soil Party. Garrisonian and Anti-Garrisonian abolitionists shared the goal of immediate, unconditional, and universal emancipation for all enslaved people in the United States.
James G. Birney was the two-time presidential nominee of the Liberty Party, a forerunner of the Free Soil Party.. Though William Lloyd Garrison and most other abolitionists of the 1830s had generally shunned the political system, a small group of abolitionists founded the Liberty Party in 1840.
1883 - Bobby Bell of the Kansas City Chiefs inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 1985 World Series won by Kansas City Royals with Manager Dick Howser; Harris-Kearney House opens as a museum. 1986 - Town Pavilion hi-rise built. 1987 - Len Dawson of the Kansas City Chiefs inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 1988 ACT UP chapter ...
In 1854 Montgomery purchased land near present-day Mound City, Kansas, where he became a leader of local Free-state men and was a fervent abolitionist. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 1857 he organized and commanded a "Self-Protective Company", using it to order pro-slavery settlers out of the region.
Isaac Tichenor Goodnow (January 17, 1814 – March 20, 1894) was an abolitionist and co-founder of Kansas State University and Manhattan, Kansas.Goodnow was also elected as a Republican to the Kansas House of Representatives and as Superintendent of Public Instruction for the state, and is known as "the father of formal education in Kansas."