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Bleeding Kansas

Primary source: “Bleeding Kansas . . . ,” daguerrotype, 1856.
Caption: In the summer of 1856, advocates of Free States flocked to Kansas in anticipation of the popular sovereignty vote.



In the summer of 1856, advocates of Free States flocked to Kansas in anticipation of the popular sovereignty vote.

“Bleeding Kansas, a daguerrotype of a free-state artillery battery, 1856," in Who Built America? American Social History Project (New York: Pantheon Books, 1989): 400.

Kansas State Historical Society.



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