While spending some Saturday time researching on Ancestry.com today, I became really curious about the Freelands (my great-great grandparents, and my middle name) who came to Kansas with New England roots, in the mid 1800s.
Kansas, in the mid-1800s, was "Bleeding Kansas".
Basically the Mason-Dixon line of slavery was broken by democratic vote in "slave-owning" Missouri, which was above the line, breaking the precedent. Kansas-Nebraska Act followed, and Kansas was to decide slavery based on the popular vote.
Kansas, in the mid-1800s, was "Bleeding Kansas".
Basically the Mason-Dixon line of slavery was broken by democratic vote in "slave-owning" Missouri, which was above the line, breaking the precedent. Kansas-Nebraska Act followed, and Kansas was to decide slavery based on the popular vote.
