The Lecompton Constitution

Authors

  • L. Ethan Ellis Rutgers University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14713/jrul.v3i2.1167

Keywords:

History, Slavery

Abstract

Ellis discusses this pre-Civil War pro-slavery constitution of Kansas.  For two generations the Lecompton Constitution lay hidden from the public eye in a Rutgers safe.

Author Biography

L. Ethan Ellis, Rutgers University

Dutgers University Libraries

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Published

2012-03-21

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (1940)

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