He therefore bowed to Southern wishes and proposed a bill for organizing Nebraska-Kansas which stated that the slavery question would be decided by popular sovereignty. He assumed that settlers ...

Gov. MEDARY has vetoed the bill abolishing Slavery in the Territory of Kansas. The Legislature has taken the bill up again and will probably pass it over his veto. Advertisement ...

Members of a Kansas House Committee voted against a bill which would have conveyed the Shawnee Indian Mission to one of three ...

At the edge of the United States — Kansas wouldn’t become a state until ... “We don’t have a lot of artifacts related to slavery, because people didn’t keep that stuff.

The Democrat politician Stephen Douglas had the idea that the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska would choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states. This meant the old ...

In the United States, Kansas has a new mural in its Statehouse honouring women who campaigned for voting rights for decades ...

She said the ruins were built as a Freeport town bridging slave Missouri to free Kansas. Native Americans from the Wyandotte Nation helped people escape slavery and signage with QR codes will help ...