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Bleeding Kansas and the Movement to Establish Kansas as a Free State.

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English - November 27, 2019 10:00 - 24 minutes - 28.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 232 ratings
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Today Mitch Jeserich talks to Robert K. Sutton about Bleeding Kansas, when anti-slavery and pro slavery militias fought out a war in the territory that would became Kansas in the decades before the Civil War.
Robert K. Sutton is the author of the book Stark Mad Abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era.
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