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Item # 700055

May 07, 1856

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, May 7, 1856 

* Bleeding Kansas
* Missouri border invasion
* War on slavery


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