As I read William Still's UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (1877), I am continually beset with the fact that as many free blacks were stolen by Maryland kidnappers, from Pennsylvania following the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, as slaves were allegedly liberated from Missouri by Kansas "Jayhawks" in the same period . That helps to explain why Gettysburg was fought in Pennsylvania; old kidnappers were retracing their steps. "Bloody Kansas" could not compare in carnage to that of Pennsylvania by a long shot!
Friday, April 17, 2015
Maryland//Pennsylvania=Missouri//Kansas?
As I read William Still's UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (1877), I am continually beset with the fact that as many free blacks were stolen by Maryland kidnappers, from Pennsylvania following the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, as slaves were allegedly liberated from Missouri by Kansas "Jayhawks" in the same period . That helps to explain why Gettysburg was fought in Pennsylvania; old kidnappers were retracing their steps. "Bloody Kansas" could not compare in carnage to that of Pennsylvania by a long shot!