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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC01647 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to 1856 |
| Title | Petition to Governor John White Geary |
| Date | 1856 |
| Author | Speer, John (1817-1906) |
| Recipient | Geary, John White |
| Document Type | Non-governmental organization document |
| Content Description | Speer and others sign the petition, directed to Governor Geary. Petitioners argue that a group of the Territory's best citizens are unjustly held in prison. The men were arrested for resisting the establishment of a pro-slavery government in Kansas. Signed by sixty five men, including Speer. Circa date based on the term of Geary's governorship of the Kansas Territory, which lasted less than one year. |
| Subjects | Slavery Prisoner Law Bleeding Kansas African American History Government and Civics Abolition Westward Expansion Petition |
| People | Geary, John White (1819-1873) Speer, John (1817-1906) |
| Place written | Kansas |
| Theme | Slavery & Abolition; Law; African Americans; Westward Expansion; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Additional Information | John Speer was a long-time opponent of slavery, was the publisher of the Kansas Tribune (in Lawrence and then Topeka) and the Kansas Republican (in Lawrence), both free-state papers. The newspaper was destroyed, and two of Speer's sons murdered, by Quantrill's raiders in 1863. Speer served in the first territorial legislature and, after the war, in both houses of the state legislature. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |
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