The New England Emigrant Aid Company was a transportation company founded in Boston, Massachusetts by activist Eli Thayer in the wake of the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed the population of Kansas
Trade sign used at the Boston headquarters of the New England Emigrant Aid Company
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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
New England Emigrant Aid Company
…2000, about a third of whom returned home, but the Kansas Historical Society puts the number at around 900 for those who left for Kansas in 1855 alone. Bleeding Kansas Corder, Eric (1970). Prelude to Civil War; Kansas-Missouri, 1854-61. New York City, NY: Crowell-Collier Press…
An 1855 Free-State poster
Preston Brooks attacking Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate in 1856
Tragic Prelude, in the Kansas State Capitol