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Title
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Freeborn, Falsely Imprisoned
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Description
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Article tells the story of Allen Pinks, a free African-American living and working in Kansas during the late 1850s and 1860s. The author focuses upon Pinks' capture in Missouri without his freedom papers and later being held against his will in Platte County, Missouri, under charges of being an escaped slave. The author states that Pinks escaped, returned to Lawrence, and began to assist other slave hunters seeking to capture free African Americans in Kansas. It is stated that Pinks was murdered on April 29, 1869, in Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Date
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2014-03-02
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Scapegoat? Colonel Edwin V. Sumner and the Topeka Dispersal
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Description
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On July 4, 1856, Colonel Edwin V. Sumner dispersed the free-state legislature while it convened in Topeka, Kansas Territory. Sumner's operation intensified the debate over federal policy and the legality of Sumner's actions.
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Date
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2010
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
