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Free State Convention!
Title
Free State Convention!
Description
Invitation to the Free State Convention in Big Springs, Kansas. On September 5-6, 1855, approximately 100 delegates gathered at Big Springs, Kansas, along the California Road in Douglas County, to form the Free-State Party. The party supported the entry of Kansas into the Union as a free state, but it did not necessarily espouse abolition of slavery in the South, a position commonly considered to be radical in both the North and the South.
Object Type
Image
Date
1855
Free-State Legislative Council, Kansas Territory
Title
Free-State Legislative Council, Kansas Territory
Description
Photograph of the Free-State Legislative Council, 1857-1858.
Object Type
Image
The Kansas Herald of Freedom
Title
The Kansas Herald of Freedom
Description
An 1859 issue of the Herald of Freedom. The Herald of Freedom, a prominent Free-State newspaper, was first published in Lawrence, Kansas on October 21, 1854. The press was destroyed in the May 1856 Sacking of Lawrence, but it returned to print in November 1856.
Object Type
Newspaper Article
Date
March 26, 1859
Squatter Sovereign
Title
Squatter Sovereign
Description
The first issue of the Squatter Sovereign. The Squatter Sovereign, the most prominent of the proslavery newspapers in Kansas Territory, was first published in Atchison, Kansas in 1855. It printed some of the most inflammatory proslavery rhetoric in the territory, before ironically being purchased by the antislavery Samuel C. Pomeroy in March 1857. Pomeroy, an affiliate of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society, turned the paper in favor of the Free-State cause before reselling it to John A. Martin, who renamed it Freedom's Champion.
Object Type
Newspaper Article
Date
February 3, 1855
Amos Adams Lawrence
Title
Amos Adams Lawrence
Description
Portrait of Amos A. Lawrence, namesake of Lawrence, Kansas.
Object Type
Image
Sara Tappan Lawrence Robinson
Title
Sara Tappan Lawrence Robinson
Description
Portrait of Sara Robinson taken in 1857. The wife of Dr. Charles Robinson, Sara Robinson was a notable Free-State activist and author of Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life.
Object Type
Image
Date
1857
New England Emigrant Aid Company Sign
Title
New England Emigrant Aid Company Sign
Description
Sign advertising the New England Emigrant Aid Company.
Object Type
Image