{"product_id":"stark-mad-abolitionists-robert-k-sutton-9781510716490","title":"Stark Mad Abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle Over Slavery in the Civil War Era","description":"\u003cb\u003eA town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, had just ordered a young African American man who had escaped from slavery in Virginia and settled in Boston to be returned to bondage in the South. An estimated fifty thousand citizens rioted in protest. Observing the scene was Amos Adams Lawrence, a wealthy Bostonian, who \"waked up a stark mad Abolitionist.\" As quickly as Lawrence waked up, he combined his fortune and his energy with others to create the New England Emigrant Aid Company to encourage abolitionists to emigrate to Kansas to ensure that it would be a free state. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe town that came to bear Lawrence's name became the battleground for the soul of America, with abolitionists battling pro-slavery Missourians who were determined to make Kansas a slave state. The onset of the Civil War only escalated the violence, leading to the infamous raid of William Clarke Quantrill when he led a band of vicious Confederates (including Frank James, whose brother Jesse would soon join them) into town and killed two hundred men and boys. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eStark Mad Abolitionists\u003c\/i\u003e shows how John Brown, Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, Sam Houston, and Abraham Lincoln all figure into the story of Lawrence and \"Bleeding Kansas.\" The story of Amos Lawrence's eponymous town is part of a bigger story of people who were willing to risk their lives and their fortunes in the ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert K. Sutton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1510716491\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781510716490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Skyhorse Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/29\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2017","brand":"Robert K. Sutton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46311067582719,"sku":"9781510716490","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2dd01753-e58c-490a-a317-46ee01c3a807.jpg?v=1730888016","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stark-mad-abolitionists-robert-k-sutton-9781510716490","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}