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 LettersBibliographyAcknowledgementsMohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592b
The Movement in 1854
12020-04-12T21:34:31-07:00Mohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592b337332plain2020-04-12T21:35:07-07:00Mohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592bThe founding of New England Emigration Aid Company in 1854, was a direct response to the Kansas Nebraska Act. The company organized assisted emigration to Kansas from Rhode Island and the state of New York. The objective of the “organized self-sacrificing emigration” as Thayer liked to call it his plans for Kansas, was to bring the ideological battle over slavery from the senate to the prairies. Thayer’s declared mission was “to dispute with Slavery every square foot of land exposed to its control. A hand-to-hand conflict was to decide between the system of free labor and the system of slave labor.” Thayer stressed and called for direct action, and to the solution to the problem of slavery independent from a political decision.
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1media/S P 7 res_thumb.jpg2020-01-30T22:01:23-08:00Mohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592bSpeech Page 7 Numbered2Thayer, Eli . “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.media/S P 7 res.jpgplain2020-04-12T21:42:57-07:00Mohammad Kasifur Rahmanecb6e3453a6d465de1d876ca12f66a3cf615592b