Richard C. Brown and Herbert J. Bass, One Flag, One Land, vol. 1 (Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett Company, 1986), 468-469.
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Secondary
Year
1986
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Book
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Body Summary:
Men favoring slavery formed one territorial government in Kansas. Men opposed to slavery formed another. Raids and murders took place as law and order broke down. John Brown, a fanatical abolitionist, and his sons led an attack in which five proslavery settlers in Kansas were killed. Violence in "bleeding Kansas" added to the tensions now being felt in all parts of the country.
Type: Description
Citation:
Richard C. Brown and Herbert J. Bass, One Flag, One Land, vol. 1 (Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett Company, 1986), 464.
Body Summary:
For black people it was no compromise. It was a disaster. What did it matter if the slave sales were forbidden in the District of Columbia? White families living there could still keep slaves. And Southern officeholders could bring slaves to serve them in the capital city of a supposedly free, democratic nation. But the chief threat for black people came from passing of the Fugitive Slave Law, one part of the Compromise of 1850...Finally, the law said that those who knew of escaped slaves and did not report what they knew could be fined and even jailed.