Free-Stater (Kansas)
Free-Staters was the name given to settlers in
Jayhawkers
in their fight against slavery and to make Kansas a free state.
Overview
Many Free-Staters were
Edward Dwight Holton.[1]
What united the Free-Staters was a desire to defeat the
As time passed and the violence in Bleeding Kansas escalated, the Free-State movement became more popular. In 1858, the Free-Staters proposed a second constitution, the Leavenworth Constitution, which banned slavery and also would have given the right to vote to black men, though this constitution also failed because the US Senate did not ratify it.[6][7] Kansas became a state January 29, 1861 after a free state constitution (from a conference in Wyandotte in 1859) was adopted.[7] The Confederate States of America seceded in the next month and Jefferson Davis was sworn in as their president February 18, 1861.
During this campaign both for and against the
Kansas Constitution, Kansas's history as a "free state", or a "beacon of liberty within the region," was brought up by various commentators.[8][9][10][11]
See also
References
- ^ "Honorable E. D. Holton: He Visits our Young City Amid the Firing of Cannon, The Ringing of Bells, Playing of Bands, And Rejoicing Generally". Holton Recorder. Holton, Kansas. December 11, 1879. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
- ^ Gilman, A. F. (1914). The Origin of the Republican Party. Ripon, Wisconsin: Ripon College. pp. 5–10. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
- ^ Cordley, Richard (1895). A History of Lawrence: From the Earliest Settlement to the Close of The Rebellion. Lawrence, KS: E. F. Caldwell. pp. 1–3.
- ISBN 978-0-299-16460-7.
Gardner photographed former free-state cities [like] Manhattan, Topeka, and Lawrence...
- ^ Prichard, Jeremy (April 22, 2013). "New England Emigrant Aid Company". Civil War on the Western Border. Kansas City Public Library. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
The Northern settlers, who began arriving in 1854, founded various towns such as Topeka, Manhattan ... Osawatomie [and] Lawrence.
- ^ "Leavenworth Constitution". Kansas Memory. Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
- ^ a b "Kansas Constitutions". Kansapedia. Kansas Historical Society. February 2011. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
- from the original on October 3, 2022. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
- ^ Kirk, Elizabeth (August 11, 2022). "The Meaning of Kansas: Lessons from a Pro-Life Defeat". Public Discourse. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
- ^ "Kansas votes to protect abortion rights in state constitution". the Guardian. August 3, 2022. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
- ^ Kendall, Dave (July 31, 2022). "As a 'Free State,' Kansas has a long history of deciding who should wield political power". Kansas Reflector. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
Further reading
- Miner, Craig (2002). Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854–2000. ISBN 0-7006-1215-7.
- Reynolds, David (2005). John Brown, Abolitionist. New York: ISBN 0-375-41188-7.
- Thayer, Eli (1889). History of the Kansas Crusade: Its Friends and its Foes. New York: Harper and Brothers. Retrieved August 2, 2018.