Resources
- Transcript of the Missouri Compromise (March 1, 1820)
- Transcript of the Compromise of 1850 (1850)
- Transcript of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (May 30, 1854)
- Interactive map of slave and free states in 1854
- Selections from The History Show 1857
- Selection from Even We Here play about Abraham Lincoln.
Reactions to the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Images
- The beauties of the extension of the area of slavery (image, 1850-1860)
- Liberty, the fair maid of Kansas -- in the hands of "Border Ruffians" (image, 1856)
- The Cincinnati Platform, or the way to make a new State in 1856 (image, 1856)
- Buchaneer pacification: a true picture of politics in the U.S. in 1856 (image, 1856)
- Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler (image, 1856)
- Congressional surgery: legislative quakery (image, 1860 or 1861)
- Two sides to this question: Eli Thayer - the Prince of traitors and squatter sovereignty - defeated (image, 1860)
Texts
- Letter requesting sermons on against extending slavery into Nebraska (letter, 1854)
- Letter requesting ministers petition Congress against passing the Kansas-Nebraska Bill (letter, 1854)
- "On the Surrender of a Fugitive Slave" by James Russell Lowell (Poem, 1860)
- “The Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1854),” collection of newspaper editorials on the Secession Era Editorials Project website hosted by Furman University
Anti-Nebraska Conventions – Worcester, Massachusetts
- Broadside calling for people to attend a convention in Worcester (broadside, 1854)
- Resolutions of the anti-Nebraska convention (newspaper article, 1854)
- Resolutions of the Republican state convention (newspaper article, 1854)
New England Aid Company
Eli Thayer and the Emigrant Aid Movement
- “The Kansas Emigrant Song” (song, 1854)
- Purpose and plans of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company (broadside, 1854)
- Invitation to action by joining the New England Emigrant Aid Company (broadside, 1855)
- New England Aid Company’s work on education, temperance, freedom, religion in Kansas (broadside, 1855)
- "Why and How" the Company was formed, from Thayer's A History of the Kansas Crusade (book excerpt, 1889)
- "What Saved Kansas," from Thayer's A History of the Kansas Crusade (book excerpt, 1889)
Anti-Emigrant Aid Company Views
- Appeal to Southerners in favor of establishing slavery in Kansas (in De Bow's, periodical article, 1856)
John Brown and a Massacre in Kansas
- Territorial History, Part 33 - The Pottawatomie Murders (book excerpt, 1883)
- Franklin County, Part 3 – The Pottawatomie Massacre (book excerpt, 1883)
- With the Border Ruffians: Memories of the Far West (book excerpt, 1908)
- Letter by Edward Bridgman “about the affairs of Kansas” (letter, 1856)