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The Speech that Settled Kansas: Eli Thayer's Rousing LectureMain MenuThayer's Lecture of December 5, 1854About the ProjectEditorial StatementThayer's Rhetorical StyleNewspaper Articles and LettersAcknowledgementsMohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592b
"Eli Thayer."Encyclopedia of World Biography, edited by Suzanne Michele Bourgoinand Paula Kay Byers, Second Edition, vol. 15, Gale Research, 1988.
Goodnow, Isaac T. “Personal Reminiscence and Kansas Emigration, 1855.” Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Vol IV, Kansas Publishing House 1890.
Ingram, John F. and Jones, Clifton H. Inventory of theEli Thayer Papers, Archives/ Manuscripts, Brown University Library, MS 78.1.
Johnson, Oliver. The abolitionists vindicated in a review of Eli Thayer's paper onthe New England Emigrant Aid Company. Worcester, Massachusetts, Published by Franklin P. Rice, 1887.
“Kansas Meeting at Franklin Hall.” The Rhode Island Freeman [Providence, RI], 8 December, 1854, p. 2.
Mihram, Danielle. “The University of Southern California Voltaire Letters: A polymathic multimodal digital project.” College & Research Libraries News, 78.11 (2017): 592. Web. 4 Oct. 2019. http://scalar.usc.edu/works/voltaire/index. Accessed 24 Jun. 2019.
Sinha, Manisha. The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition. Yale University Press, 2016.
Thayer, Eli, et al. Eli Thayer Papers,1843-1903, Archives/ Manuscripts, Brown University Library, MS 78.1, boxes 1-14.
Thayer, Eli. A History of the Kansas Crusade: Its Friends and Its Foes. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1889.
---.New England Emigrant Aid Company and its Influence, Through the Kansas Contest, Upon National History. Worcester, Massachusetts,Published by Franklin P. Rice, 1887.
---. “There was a country (now Kansas) marked on our old maps as the ‘Great American Desert,’” Eli Thayer Papers, Brown University Library, MS. 78.1. Box 10 Folder 8.
Newspaper Articles (In order of the Entry in the Gallery)
“Kansas Meeting at Franklin Hall.” The Rhode Island Freeman [Providence, RI], 8 December 1854, p. 2.
“The Antislavery Lectures.” The Rhode Island Freeman [Providence, RI], 6 January 1855, p. 1.
“The Kansas Movement in Providence.” The Rhode Island Freeman [Providence, RI], 19 January 1855, p. 2.
“From Kansas – The Struggle.” The Rhode Island Freeman [Providence, RI], 15 December 1854, p. 1.
“The New – England Clergymen and The Kansas Emigrant Aid Society.” New York Daily Times, 9 December 1856, p.
“Boston Booksellers Aiding Kansas.” New York Daily Times, 25 November 1856, p. 3.
“Eli Thayer’s Speech on the Kansas Question.” Orleans Independent Standard [Irasburgh, Vermont], 9 April 1858, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/image/403729030/, Accessed 27 February, 2019.