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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"New England Emigrant Aid Company"”.
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The New England Emigrant Aid Company and the response in Massachusetts to its goals and efforts to create a free Kansas, 1854-1856
… Northerners were not willing to assent to this new compromising proposal without a struggle.</p> <p>Eli Thayer, a freshman Congressman in the Massachusetts State Legislature, invisioned a scheme to use Douglas' concept of squatter sovereignty to the North's advantage. He proposed and guided …
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Philanthropic Colonialism: New England Philanthropy in Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1860
… sovereignty. Upon the passage of the bill, New England’s most elite class of citizens, led by Eli Thayer, mobilized their networks of philanthropy in New England to ensure the Kansas-Nebraska territory did not embrace slavery. The effort by the New England elite to make the territories free …