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Continued from July 14 (reply #27).

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Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era

18 posted on 08/20/2017 5:33:22 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

This is very timely, Homer. Even without the interwebs, people were managing to gin up violent mob and injure those of different viewpoints.

On the other hand, I recall that things are going to go downhill from August 1857 forward ...


19 posted on 08/20/2017 5:49:18 AM PDT by Tax-chick (You can't read all day if you don't start early in the morning.)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Some of this sounds familiar these days.

Do you know what was the constitutional convention all about or if anything come of it?


20 posted on 08/20/2017 7:49:17 AM PDT by Jim W N
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