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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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2010
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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The Noble Wife of the Late Champion of Freedom
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Description
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Mary Brown, widow of abolitionist John Brown, was the guest of honor at a reception held at the statehouse in Topeka, Kansas on November 15, 1882. The article provides a biography of Mary Brown's life and discusses how she was portrayed and linked with her husband's legacy after his death in 1859. The author argues that Kansas officials used the reception as a means to promote their own interpretations of John Brown and Kansas history, honoring Mary Brown as a symbol of the state's struggle for freedom.
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2012
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Josiah Miller, an Antislavery Southerner
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Description
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Article on Josiah Miller, an antislavery newspaper man from South Carolina who settled in Lawrence, Kansas in 1854. Shortly after arriving, he left the newspaper business and became involved in local politics, serving as a probate judge and a state senator for Douglas County. Between 1854 and 1858, Miller kept an "active" correspondence with his parents, chronicling the early settlement of Lawrence and Bleeding Kansas period. The article reprints 11 of Miller's letters to his parents and includes information on an encounter his siblings had with Missouri guerrilla leader William Quantrill.
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Date
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2013
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Dr./Gov. Charles Robinson, Bleeding Kansas Leader
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Description
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Biographical article about Charles Robinson (1818-1894), first governor of Kansas from 1861-1863. Robinson was born in Worchester County, Massachusetts and first came to Kansas Territory in July 1854.
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Date
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2011
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Samuel J. Kookogey in Bleeding Kansas
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Description
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A historical profile on Samuel J. Kookogey, delegate to the proslavery government of territorial Kansas from Leavenworth County. Originally from Columbus, Georgia, Kookogey took part in a plan to overthrow the Spanish government in Cuba before making his way to Kansas. He settled in Easton in 1855, shortly before violence broke out in the town between free-state and proslavery supporters. Kookogey was elected to the Lecompton Constitutional Convention in 1857 and died in 1862.
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Date
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2012
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
