Stark Mad Abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (596 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1510716491 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Downs, author of After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War “Stark Mad Abolitionists tells the stories of the men and women who made Lawrence, Kansas, a stronghold of abolitionism and those who tried to stop them. The abuses of slavery turned one man, Amos Adams Lawrence, into a ‘stark made abolitionist’; it made many others into emigrants to Kansas, which they hoped to settle as a firewall against slavery's farther expansion. Without a lot of melodramatic foreshadowing, he explains how high-minded men could descend, step by step, into gruesome guerrilla warfare. Sutton’s Stark Mad Abolitionists offers more than just another retelling of the often violent, and even vicious, struggle along the Kansas-Missouri border during the decade between the mid-1850s and the end
Dole is married to former cabinet member and US senator Elizabeth Hanford Dole of North Carolina.. Sutton lives with his wife Harriet Davidson in Bethesda, Maryland.Robert Joseph “Bob” Dole (born July 22, 1923 in Russell, Kansas) is an attorney and politician who served as a US senator from Kansas from 1969 to 1996. Sutton, former Chief Historian of the National Park Service, devoted his career to sharing stories with the publ
An estimated fifty thousand citizens rioted in protest. Observing the scene was Amos Adams Lawrence, a wealthy Bostonian, who waked up a stark mad Abolitionist.” As quickly as Lawrence waked up, he combined his fortune and his energy with others to create the New England Emigrant Aid Company to encourage abolitionists to emigrate to Kansas to ensure that it would be a free state.The town that came to bear Lawrence’s name became the battleground for the soul of America, with abolitionists battling pro-slavery Missourians who were determined to make Kansas a