2.Argued that nonslaveholding whites indirectly suffered most from slavery.3.Published in the North but could not be published in the South4.Impacta.Negligible among its targeted audience: poor southern whitesb.Used by Republicans as propaganda in 1859 campaign.c.Southerners infuriated that Northerners would use the book againstthem.i.Provoked secessionist sentiment in Southii.Within two years, 15 novels were written in response by proslaverywritersIX. "Bleeding Kansas"A. New England Emigrant Aid Companyo1. Sent 2,000 men into Kansas to stop slavery from spreading there.o2. Many came armed with breach loading rifles ("Beecher’s Bibles")B. Southerners were furious that the North betrayed the spirit of theKansas-NebraskaActoThe law implied that Kansas would become slave & Nebraska free.oArmed Southerners came into Kansas to resist Northerners
oIronically, only 2 slaves lived in Kansas in 1860C. 1855, election was held in Kansas for its first territorial legislatureo1. Proslavery "border ruffians" from Missouri poured into Kansas: "vote early andvote often!"o2. Southerners won the election and created a puppet governmentoFree-soilers ignored the bogus election and created its own gov't in Topeka.D. 1856, a proslavery gang attacked and burned part of the free-soil town of Lawrence,Kansas.E. The caning of Charles Sumner (May 22, 1856)1.Sumner, an abolitionist Senator from Massachusetts, gave aninflammatory speech— "Crime Against Kansas"—where hecondemned pro-slave southerners and insulted one of its senators2.South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks retaliated bysavagely beating Sumner with an 11-oz gold-headed cane.3.House of Representatives didn't have the votes to expel Brooksbut he resigned anyway and was unanimously reelected by SouthCarolina to the Senate.4.The beating demonstrated the hatred brewing in Congressbetween the North & SouthF. Pottawatomie Massacre , May 24-25, 1856oJohn Brown & sons slaughtered 5 men in revenge for the ttack on Lawrence (andthe caning of Sumner)oBrown an extreme abolitionist; saw himself as doing God's work.oBrown escaped justiceoA mini-civil war began in Kansas 1856 that continued through the U.S. Civil War.
G. Lecompton Constitution (1857).1.Kansas applied for statehood based on popular sovereignty.2.Southerners in control drafted a pro-slavery constitutiona.People voted for the constitution with or with or without slavery.b.If people voted ―no‖ on slavery, rights of slaveholders currently inKansas would be protected nonetheless3.Free-soilers again refused to vote for a southern-dominated constitution4.Slave supporters approved the constitution with slavery late in 1857.5.President Buchanan supported the Lecompton Constitution6.Senator Douglas led the opposition to Kansas' constitution7.Compromise: Lecompton Constitution sent back to Kansas for another vote butpro-slavery Kansas rejected the proposal4. Result: Free-soilers were victorious; Kansas denied statehood until 1861 (after theSouth seceded) when it entered as a free state
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