Charles L. Robinson
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Charles Lawrence Robinson was an American politician who served in the California State Assembly from 1851 to 1852, and later as the first governor of Kansas from 1861 until 1863. Throughout his polit
Charles L. Robinson
Bleeding Kansas
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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War, was a series of violent civil confrontations in the Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged f
Charles L. Robinson
…Boston, 1856), in which she describes the scenes, actors, and events of the struggle between the friends and foes of slavery in Kansas. During the Bleeding Kansas period of the 1850s, Robinson became a leader of the antislavery Free State movement. Believing that proslavery Border Ruffians had crossed over from…
An 1855 Free-State poster
Preston Brooks attacking Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate in 1856
Tragic Prelude, in the Kansas State Capitol