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Relating to 'Bleeding Kansas'...
Relating to 'Bleeding Kansas'...
Item # 700055
May 07, 1856
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, May 7, 1856 Page 5 begins with a report headed: "Kansas Delays" concerns work in Congress for introducing a bill for the admission of Kansas into the Union.
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, very nice condition.
Category: 1857-1860