Notes
147 Notes introduction 1. Papers concerning Susannah (Yoacham) Dillon, Adrienne Christopher Folder, Miscellaneous Collection, Library and Archives Division, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka (hereafter cited as KSHS). Christopher was Yoacham’s great-granddaughter. 2. Michael Fellman, “Rehearsal for the Civil War: Antislavery and Proslavery at the Fighting Point in Kansas, 1854–1856,” in Antislavery Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Abolitionists, ed. Lewis Perry and Michael Fellman (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press, 1979), 288. See also Michael Fellman, Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 13. Throughout this book I will use the terms “Free-Soil” and “antislavery” interchangeably; both terms denote opposition to slavery in the territories only, which distinguishes this view from abolitionism , whose proponents advocated immediate abolition throughout the country. The term “free state” connotes those Kansas settlers who embraced the antislavery view and thus argued against slavery in Kansas, but some “free staters” were also abolitionists. 3. For an excellent historiographical review essay, see Gunja SenGupta, “Bleeding Kansas,” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 24 (Winter 2001–2002): 318–341. See also Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004); Michael Morrison, Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), 126–188; James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Era of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 145–169; William Freehling, The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776–1854 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 536– 566; James A. Rawley, Race and Politics: “Bleeding Kansas” and the Coming of the Civil War (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1969); and Kenneth Stampp, America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 144–181. These scholars chart the political history of Bleeding Kansas beginning with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in May 1854 and ending with either the passage of the antislavery Wyandot Constitution in 1859 or the entrance of Kansas to the Union as a free state in 1861. Freehling in particular does an excellent job of navigating the complicated waters of the disintegrating two-party system in the context of the national debate between Whigs and Democrats over popular sovereignty and the expansion of slavery. For a primarily demographic interpretation, 148 notes to pages 2–3 see William O. Lynch, “Population Movements in Relation to the Struggle for Kansas,” in Studies in American History, Inscribed to James Albert Woodburn, by James Albert Woodburn (Bloomington: Indiana University, 1926), 383–404. 4. In a similar vein, Margaret S. Creighton recasts the Battle of Gettysburg by examining what she calls the “outsiders” of the battle in Colors of Courage: Gettysburg’s Forgotten History, Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War’s Defining Battle (New York: Basic Books, 2005). 5. Drew Gilpin Faust writes, “Male prerogative and male responsibility thus served as the organizing principle of southern households and southern society; white men stood at the apex of a domestic pyramid of power and obligation that represented a microcosm of the southern social order.” See Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 32, 4. 6. On southern honor, see Bertram Wyatt-Brown, The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s–1880s (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001); Bertram Wyatt-Brown, The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy and Imagination in a Southern Family (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994); Betram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982); and Kenneth Greenberg, Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Proslavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling in the Old South (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996). 7. On womanhood in the nineteenth century, see Kathryn Kish Sklar, Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973); Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: Woman’s Sphere in New England, 1780–1835 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977); Joan Jensen, Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750–1850 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986); and Mary Poovey, Uneven Development : The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988). On manhood, see J. A. Mangan and James Walvin, eds...
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