Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the Union (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The limits prescribed for this volume have not permitted a minutely detailed account of the Kansas struggle. I have endeavored to exhibit the logic and spirit of the first actual national conflict between slaveholding and free-labor im migrants, rather than to attempt an exhaustive collection of facts. Newspaper files, public doc uments, books, manuscripts that promised to throw light upon the subject have been carefully examined. A large amount of material has been derived from personal intercourse with men of all parties who helped to make the history of Kansas. If my version of it should not prove to be colored with the dyes in vogue twenty five years ago, I beg the reader to bear in mind that there is too much truth in what Theodore Parker said in 1856, at the anniversary of the anti-slavery Society, concerning the Kansas busi.

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