Previous excerpt from this volume was February 2 (reply #14) . The following doesnt pick up quite where that left off.
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
Interesting implications for the future; abolitionists were eventually going to foment slave insurrections. Confederate apologists assume that with Secession and independence the two nations would have simply gone their separate ways in peace and the south would remain as it always had been.
That wasn’t going to happen.