But Kansas was next to the slave state of Missouri. In an era that would come to be known as "Bleeding Kansas," the territory would become a battleground over the slavery question. The reaction ...

Senate Representative Preston Brooks caning Senator Charles Sumner for his speech on "The Crime Against Kansas" is an event that showed how polarized the nation had become over slavery. An event that ...

Bleeding Kansas – John Brown’s Fight Against Slavery Posted: January 30, 2025 | Last updated: January 30, 2025 As tensions over slavery reached a boiling point, Senator Charles Sumner was ...

Edward Bridgman was one of the northerners who came to Kansas during the period that became known as "Bleeding Kansas." He grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts, and migrated to Kansas in 1856 ...

Most Kansans think they know the role of African Americans in our state's history. Those big stories, though, are just the ...