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On 'Bleeding Kansas'... Harriet Beecher Stowe... On the Sumner beating...
On 'Bleeding Kansas'... Harriet Beecher Stowe... On the Sumner beating...
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June 09, 1856
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, June 9, 1856 Page 4 has an article which begins with a reference to Harriet Beecher Stowe and her "Uncle Tom's Cabin" beginning with: "Mrs. Stowe, it is said, has another novel in hand, the interest of which is to turn on the mischiefs which slavery works to the poor whites in its neighborhood...".
Page 5 has a reaction to the in-Congress beating of Charles Sumner by Paxton Brooks: "Indignation Meeting - Meeting at Flushing on the Sumner Outrage". And then another page has lefty coverage concerning the tensions in Kansas with the slavery vs. anti-slavery factions: "FROM KANSAS" "The Sacking of Lawrence" "The Beginning of the End" "Help Wanted by the Northern Quarters" "Grand Territorial Convention Ahead" "A Record of Kansas Ruffianism" "The Slaughter of Five Pro-Slavery Men--The Murder of Young Jones--Land Robberies" and even more.
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, good condition.
Category: 1857-1860
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