User:IveGoneAway/sandbox/Timeline of Bleeding Kansas
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The central concern of this timeline is the period of antebellum conflict. However, all of the events of Bleeding Kansas took place in a context where the majority of the population (and black slaves) were within tribes living on the Kansas River who were involved in the development of the Territory before and after the American Civil War.
The role of the local and settler tribes in Bleeding Kansas should not be overlooked. The Kansas–Nebraska Act expressly stipulated the preservation of Indian treaties in the territory. Within the Eastern Kansas tribes were to be found champions of Kansas statehood but also a reconning of their traditional thoughts on slavery.