River City Chronicles: Anti-Slavery Movement
Matthew Veatch, Kansas State Historical Society assistant state historian, and Jonathan Earle, assistant professor of history at Kansas University, describe the anti-slavery movement and the people at its forefront in 1850s Lawrence in “Anti-slavery: Evolutionaries and Revolutionaries in Lawrence.”
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