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Mormons to settle in Kansas... Interesting slavery item...
Mormons to settle in Kansas... Interesting slavery item...
Item # 692509
October 05, 1854
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Oct. 5, 1854 Page 6 has a report headed: "Mormon Emigration to Kansas" which begins: "We learn from one of the 'Mormon faith' that movements are on foot to establish a 'stake' for Mormon settlers in the Territory of Kansas, about 100 miles interior from the town of Kansas..." with much more. And further on is: "...Those emigrants who are well supplied will not stop at Kansas but proceed to Salt Lake, which is the grand place of rendezvous, where the temple will be built and where the edicts will issue from the Prophet Brigham..." and more.
Page 4 has an interesting item on a slave citing a newspaper ad for "Taken Up...A negro Man, in the state of Indiana..." with details. The report notes: "Taken up in the state of Indiana, a man, and lodged in jail! Taken up, why? For crime? Not alleged. For vagrancy? Not hinted at. For poverty, perhaps?..." with more.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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