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Liberty's Birds #2: Justice's Wreath

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Liberty's Birds #2: Justice's Wreath by Elsie Ridgley

Sara Robinson arrived in Lawrence, Kansas Territory in April, 1855, a committed antislavery activist. She and husband Charles Robinson decided to leave Massachusetts for the new territory, answering a call from abolitionist leaders to populate the land west of the Missouri border before a crucial election to determine if Kansas would come into the Union as a slave state like Missouri or a free state. Voters (of course, voters were white males) were given this unusual option by Stephen A. Douglas's 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act, much hated by slavery's opponents.

Charles Robinson (1818-1894)

Charles was a leader among the antislavery settlers establishing a town that the Missourians who lived about 30 miles away called Yankee Town. Western Missouri's political leaders determined that Kansas would be a slave state no matter what illegalities or violence was called for.

Justice's Wreath by Becky Collis

The new town became a refuge for Black Missourians escaping slavery and free people who hoped for a more pleasant place to live. A few months after she arrived Sara noted proslavery bully Dr. John N.O.P. Wood threatened to throw two newcomers into the river but was foiled by the locals.



"The weather...most lovely...the glad carol of singing birds."

Justice's Wreath by Denniele Bohannon

Eagles don't sing but we love to watch them soar over the valleys after
a little fishing in the Kansas River.

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Justice's Wreath by Susannah Pangelinan



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