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Stark Mad Abolitionists

Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era

by Robert K. Sutton, Bob Dole

Skyhorse Publishing

A town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, had just ordered a young African American ...