Bleeding Kansas

Description:

"Bleeding Kansas is a gripping account of events and people - rabble-rousing Jim Lane, zealot John Brown, Sheriff Sam Jones, and others - that examines the social milieu of the settlers along with the political ideas they developed. Covering the period from the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act to the 1879 Exoduster migration, it traces the complex interactions among groups inside and outside the territory, creating a comprehensive political, social, and intellectual history of this tumultuous period in the state's history."--Jacket.

subjects: Politics and government,  Race relations,  Kansas-Nebraska bill,  Civil rights,  Violence,  Slavery,  Political aspects of Slavery,  United States Civil War, 1861-1865,  History,  African Americans,  Causes,  United States,  Kansas, history,  Slavery, united states, history,  African americans, civil rights,  Political aspects

Places: Kansas,  United States

Times: 1849-1861,  1854-1861,  19th century,  Civil War, 1861-1865