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 ...

In 1856, enslaved people built the white clapboard structure when what is now Leawood and south Kansas City were large swaths of prairie. At the edge of the United States — Kansas wouldn’t become a ...

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 before the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution ...

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 ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced them into slavery south of the Mason-Dixon ...