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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08471 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | The border ruffian code in Kansas |
| Date | 1865 |
| Author | Greeley & McElrath (1841-1866) |
| Additional authors | Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) |
| Document Type | Pamphlet |
| Content Description | A pro-Republican, free-soil pamphlet published by Horace Greeley's Tribune. "The character of the Code of pretended Laws enacted by the bogus Territorial Legislature of Kansas- a Legislature notoriously forced upon the people of that Territory, at the hands of invading ruffians from Missouri, using the persuasive arguments of the Bowie-Knife and Revolver- may be judged from the following extracts..." Many pages are disbound. Last page, on verso of fifteen, consists of a map of free and slave states. |
| Subjects | African American History Slavery Abolition Politics Republican Party Weaponry Guerrilla Warfare Government and Civics Bleeding Kansas |
| People | Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |