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'Bleeding Kansas' and the Osawattamie Massacre
'Bleeding Kansas' and the Osawattamie Massacre
Item # 696517
May 19, 1856
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, June 6, 1856 Scattered throughout the issue are various reports on the growing tensions within Kansas over the slavery issue. Shall Kansas be a free or slave state?
One great letter datelines from Osawattamie begins: "The plot thickens and the tragedy is real. Men daily are killed or obliged to submit to the most servile treatment. Threats are the order of the day, and none knows but every man he meets is his deadly foe..." with more.
This letter reports on the John Brown-led Osawattamie Massacre, a revenge attack for the sacking of Lawerence, made upon pro-slavery people at Osawattamie.
Portions of other reports are shown in the photos.
Bleeding Kansas describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854. In all, some 56 people were killed between 1855 and 1859.
Eight pages, nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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