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Suggested Readings

Abing, Kevin J, "Before Bleeding Kansas: Christian Missionaries, Slavery, and the Shawnee Indians in Pre-Territorial Kansas, 1844-1854," Kansas History 24, no. 1 (Spring 2001), 54-71.

Berwanger, Eugene H. The Frontier against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1967.

Cecil-Fronsman, Bill. "'Death to All Yankees and Traitors in Kansas': The Squatter Sovereign and the Defense of Slavery in Kansas." In Kansas and the West: New Perspectives, Napier, Rita, editor. Lawrence, KS: U P of Kansas, 2003.

Craik, Elmer L. "Southern Interest in Territorial Kansas, 1854-1858." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, 1927.

Dobak, William A. ed., "Civil War on the Kansas-Missouri Border: The Narrative of Former Slave Andrew Williams," Kansas History, VI (Winter 1983): pp. 254-65.

Etcheson, Nicole. Bleeding Kansas, Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000 .

Fellman, Michael, "Rehearsal for Civil War: Antislavery and Proslavery at the Fighting Point in Kansas, 1854-1856," in Lewis Perry and Michael Feldman, eds., Antislavery Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Abolitionists (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979), pp. 287-307.

Gaeddert, G. Raymond. "First Newspapers in Kansas Counties," Kansas Historical Quarterly 10 (February 1941): 3-33.

Gridley, Karl. "John Brown and Lawrence, Kansas Territory, 1855-1859: A Militant Abolitionist's Relationship with the Free State Fortress" in Embattled Lawrence: Conflict and Community, editors Dennis Domer and Barbara Watkins. Lawrence, KS: U of Kansas Continuing Education, 2001.

Johnson, Samuel A. "The Emigrant Aid Company in Kansas," Kansas Historical Quarterly, I (1931-1932), pp. 429-41.

Klem, Mary J. "Missouri in the Kansas Struggle," Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. IX, Pt. iii, 393-413.

Lovejoy, Julia Louisa . "Letters from Kansas," Kansas Historical Quarterly 11 (February 1942): 29-44.

Malin, James C. "Judge Lecompte and the 'Sack of Lawrence' May 21, 1856 ," Kansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. XX (August, 1953), 465-94.

—. "The Pro-Slavery Background of the Kansas Struggle," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. X (December, 1923), 285-305.

Oertel, Kristin Tegtmeier, "'The Free Sons of the North vs the Myrmidons of Border Ruffianism': What Makes a Man in Bleeding Kansas," Kansas History 24, no. 1 (Autumn 2002), 174-89.

SenGupta, Gunja, "Bleeding Kansas: A Review Essay," Kansas History 24, no. 4 (Winter 2001/2002): 318-41.

Smiley, Jane. "Say It Ain't So, Huck: Second Thoughts on Mark Twain's 'Masterpiece.'" Harper's (January 1996): 61-67. Tise, Larry E. Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.

Thayer, Eli. A History of the Kansas Crusade, Its Friends and Foes. New York, 1889.

Watts, Dale E. "How Bloody Was Bleeding Kansas?: Political Killings in Kansas Territory, 1854-1861." Kansas History 18.2 (September 1995): 116-129.

Weld, Theodore. American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839.

Web Resources

Territorial Kansas Online 1854-1861: A Virtual Repository for Territorial Kansas History is an extensive website of primary resources created by the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Collection of the University of Kansas Spencer Research Library, with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This repository uses contemporary accounts and memoirs, newspaper articles, personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps, as well as scholarly books and articles, to "bring to life the settling of Kansas during the fierce debate over slavery."

This "Bleeding Kansas Gallery" of Kansas Territorial online primary resources--letters, diaries, histories, memoirs, and reports-- was created by the Kansas Collection of the University of Kansas Spencer Research Library.

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Troubles in Kansas
Lists of the individuals who settled Kansas, early voters, report of the U.S. Congress House of Representatives' special committee to investigate the troubles in Kansas; further reading.