Border Wars Conference Session

Series: Civil War

Making the Border Bleed: Slavery and Politics in Territorial Kansas, moderated by Virgil Dean, Kansas Historical Society, and featuring talks by:

Kristen Epps, Colorado State University – Pueblo; Before the Border Wars: Slavery and Southern Settlement on the Western Frontier, 1825-1845

Nicole Etcheson, Ball State University; The Goose Question: The Proslavery Party in Territorial Kansas and the “Crisis in Law and Order”

Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, University of Tulsa; “Negro-worshipping fanatics” and “villain[s] of the blackest dye”: Racialized Manhoods and the Sectional Debates

Pearl Ponce, Ithaca College; “The Noise of Democracy:” The Struggle over the Lecompton Constitution

Regular breaks are scheduled throughout this session. A question and answer session follows the presentations.

This event is co-sponsored by: Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas, Barton P. and Mary D. Cohen Charitable Trust, Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area, Bernardin Haskell Lecture Fund, Center for Regional Studies at the University of Missouri–Kansas City
Upcoming in this series:
Watch or Listen to Past Events in this Series:
22
Feb
Jefferson Davis and His Cause
Central Library |
6:30pm
13
Mar
“My Earnest Endeavor”: Grant Takes Command, 1864
Central Library |
6:30pm
23
Oct
The Battle of Westport: Culmination of the Border ...
Central Library |
6:30pm
22
Jul
Railroads and the Civil War
Central Library |
6:30pm

Border Wars Conference Session

Series: Civil War
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