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- GLC#
- GLC00929.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- April 24, 1856
- Author/Creator
- Brown, John, 1800-1859
- Title
- to Mary Ann Brown
- Place Written
- Osawatomie, Kansas
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson Slavery & Anti-slavery
The letter discusses the defeat of a pro-slavery judge. Recounts story of "one of the most deeply exciting times...since our arival in the territory. A United States Judge came here & attempted to hold a Court, & to enforce the enactment of the Bogus Legislature but was most effectually routed." The laws the court was attempting to enforce made it a crime to oppose slavery in any way, even verbally. Brown and other anti-slavery men drove the judge away and prevented them from enforcing these laws. Also discusses family health and says her brother, Orson Day, and his family have just arrived. Letter written at "Brown's Station."
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