Personal Recollections
Pardee Butler (1816-88) was a farmer and preacher born in Onondaga County, NY, who arrived in Kansas in 1855 and was involved there in the run-up to the American Civil War. He is remembered in Kansas history for being set adrift on a raft on the Missouri River by pro-slavery men for his abolitionist beliefs. After the war he continued to preach and farm, turning from the abolitionist cause to the temperance movement. He devoted much time to writing and lecturing on temperance and the Atchison Daily Globe of the 1880s contains several of his polemics. The Republican Party was begun in the early 1850s by anti-slavery activists and Butler was am…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4068-0006-7
- EAN: 9781406800067
- Produktnummer: 2465102
- Verlag: Echo Library
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 196 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 293 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 293
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