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Author Etcheson, Nicole.

Title Bleeding Kansas : contested liberty in the Civil War era / Nicole Etcheson.

Imprint Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2004.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection  973.7113 Et18b 2004    ---  Lib Use Only
 Axe Reference 2nd Floor Stacks  973.7113 Et18b 2004 c.2  ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Reitz  973.7113 Et18b 2004 c.3  ---  Lib Use Only
 Eureka Non-Fiction  973.7 Etc    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Kansas Collection  K 973.7 Etc c.2  ---  Available
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Kansas Collection  K 973.7 Etc    ---  Available
Description xiv, 370 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-350) and index.
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.
Subject United States. Kansas-Nebraska Act.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1861.
Slavery -- Political aspects -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century.
Violence -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century.
Kansas -- Race relations.
United States -- Race relations.
ISBN 0700612874 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700614923 (pbk.)
9780700614929
Standard No. UKM bA3U4474
NLGGC 24919922X

 
    
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