BLEEDING KANSAS

by Alice Nichols ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 13, 1954

A survey, based on contemporary reports and documents, of the seven years to statehood, canvasses the questionable activities of both North and South that fomented terror, murder and butchery. With slavery and abolition already occupying the nation's thought, the opening of the territory indicated that the side with the most settlers would determine its destiny and plans were plotted from afar. From the Border Ruffians to John Brown, through the six governors of the territory, to feuds between factions and feuds within factions, this is the story of violence and retaliation, in the legislature, on the street and in the homes, the story too of the defeat of the principle of squatter sovereignty or self determination as the North was at last the acknowledged winner with statehood coinciding with the outbreak of the Civil War. An energetic period and a pot and kettle situation, this is a lively research into sources and makes vivid the bloody, tempestuous years.

Pub Date: May 13, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Oxford

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION