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
Marais des Cygnes massacre
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The Marais des Cygnes massacre is considered the last significant act of violence in Bleeding Kansas prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War. On May 19, 1858, approximately 30 border ruffians
An illustrated depiction of the massacre by the engraver James H. Richardson of an artwork by John R. Chapin from page 117 of Albert D. Richardson's Beyond the Mississippi (1867)
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