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 ...

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.