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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.

Item from Catalog 355 (released for June, 2025)

Category: 1857-1860