Chapter 1

Aug19-Dec12

Conclusion

White Settlement in Indian Territory

Missions

Shawnee Methodist Mission

Thomas Johnson's slaves

Blair's History of Johnson County

Abing article

Indians History (#590)

A. Archbold to Mrs. McBride, May 6, 1848, Indians History (#590), Box 1, Folder 8

Johnson's Belief in Slavery

"Johnson County's Namesake Wanted Slavery in Kansas," (Prairie Village) Scout, May 4, 1961 in Kansas Territorial Clippings, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka

Description of Mission

Harrington's Historic Spots, SRL

Education for Slaves

Harrington's Historic Spots, SRL

Traders

Choteau Family

Cyprian Choteau

Post in Wyandotte County

Location

Choteau’s trading post was located at what is now the northeast corner of 55th and Speaker RoadFound in Wyandotte County Historical Society, History News, v. 5, no. 3 (June 1981), p. 1

Harrington's Historic Spots, SRL

Military Posts

Fort Leavenworth

Slaveholders

P. G. Lowe to Zu Adams, May 20, 1895, Slaves and Slavery Collection (#640), Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka.

Major Maclin

Schindler, KSHS

Henry Shindler, “When Slaves Were Owned in Kansas by Army Officers,” Leavenworth Times, October 13, 1912 in Shindler's History of Fort Leavenworth Clippings, KSHS

Hiram Rich

Schindler, KSHS

Henry Shindler, “When Slaves Were Owned in Kansas by Army Officers,” Leavenworth Times, October 13, 1912 in Shindler's History of Fort Leavenworth Clippings, KSHSHenry Shindler, “A Post Trader, A King Here in the Early Days,” Leavenworth Times, November 19, 1911 in Shindler's Clippings, KSHS

Background

Founding

Kansas Memory

Letter by Henry Leavenworth

Improvements

Schindler, KSHS

Henry Shindler, “1855 Red Letter Year in Building of the Old Fort,” Leavenworth Times, October 15, 1911 in Schindler, History of Fort Leavenworth Clippings, KSHS

Fort Scott

Ann Shatteo (Chatillion)

George P. Root, "Aunt Ann's Story," May 12, 1875, George P. Root Papers (#490), Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka.

Background

H. T. Wilson

H. T. Wilson, "History of Fort Scott," Fort Scott Pioneer, July 5, 1877 in Bourbon County Clippings, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka

Mary Davis

Cory article

page 236

Indian Agents

Richard Cummins

W. R. Bernard to George W. Martin, July 24, 1905, W. R. Bernard Miscellaneous Collection, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka

John Dougherty

Founder of Iatan

George J. Remsburg, "The Founding of the Village of Iatan," Atchison Champion, February 28, 1908 in George J. Remsburg, Historical and Other Sketches and Items, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka

Slave Experience

Family

Lizzie Allen

Allan E. Paris, "Life of 100-Year-Old Lizzie Allen Reflects History of Leavenworth," Leavenworth Times, July 2, 1939. From Negroes Clippings, v. 7.

Employment

Lizzie Allen

Allan E. Paris, "Life of 100-Year-Old Lizzie Allen Reflects History of Leavenworth," Leavenworth Times, July 2, 1939. From Negroes Clippings, v. 7.

A. S. Johnson reminiscence

Kitchen staff

Education

Studied at mission

Harrington's Historic Spots, SRL

Freedoms

Traveling on errands

Kansas History Clippings (SRL)

Betton's article in the Wyandotte Gazette?

A. S. Johnson reminiscence

Sale

Bill of Sale for Dorcas

A. S. Johnson reminiscence

Daily Life

Shawnee Mission

Opportunity to learn trades?

Hiring

Hiring out own time

A. S. Johnson reminiscence

Having say in your hire agreement

Cher Oncle, Cher Papa

Interaction with Native Americans

Fort Scott

Hiero Wilson

Opening Vignette

Description of Shawnee Mission

Indians History (#590)

A. Archbold to Mrs. McBride, May 6, 1848, Indians History (#590), Box 1, Folder 8

Argument

This was the frontier

Meant that they relied more on their families?

Created a bond with slaveowners

Slaves endured some of the same hardships as whites

Had a lot of contact with Native Americans

Historiography

Abing's "Before Bleeding Kansas"

Cory article

An address before the KSHS in 1902

Outlines names and locations of slaveholders

Tegtmeier-Ortel's Bleeding Borders

Sen Gupta's "Bleeding Kansas"??

Historical Background on Kansas

Early in the Chapter

Indian Removal Act of 1830

Wyandotte

Cutler's History

Shawnee

Unrau's Indians of Kansas

Text of the Act

Bedford Series book edited by Theda Purdue

Isaac McCoy

End of the Chapter

Compromise of 1850

Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

Indian Slaveholders

William Walker

Cutler's History

Bill of Sale for Dorcas

Journal Entry re: Dorcas

Cory article

Harrington's Historic Spots, SRL

Background

Wyandotte Co. Clippings, KSHS

"Wyandotte County, Our Recollection of By-Gone Days, with a Little History from other Sources," The Wyandott Herald, July 6, 1876

Joseph Parks

Abing article

Johnson County Clippings, v. 1, KSHS

“Relic of Slavery in Kansas” Kansas City Star, October 1906?- Describes (and transcribes) a deed that gave freedom to Rhoda Parks, who had been owned by the Wyandotte William Parks

Clark, The Shawnee

Indian Attitudes Toward Slaveholding

Kansa

T. S. Huffaker to Zu Adams, June 5, 1895, Slaves and Slavery Collection (#640), Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka.

Garrett Family (Wyandotte)

Cory article

page 239

Hicks Family (Wyandotte)

Cory article

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