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they also ran a pretty good racket patrolling the borders
Posted on: August 6, 2025 at 13:37:43 CT
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in kansas and Iowa, capturing both escaped slaves and freed blacks, then taking them back over the border to sell them back into slavery under the guise of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. of course often times when the supply of blacks was slow, they ignored the borders and just went straight to the source, kidnapping slaves and then simply moving them to a different part of the state to re-sell them, or "hawk" them.
there's a reason the two terms "jayhawkers" and "abolitionists" exist. they have very different meanings. today's kansans will go to great lengths to convince themselves and anyone who will listen that the two terms are synonyms and interchangeable, when in fact they had very, VERY different meanings.
it wasn't until well after the civil rights movement that kansans started to distance themselves from their deeply-held pride and long-honored practice of remaining strictly anti-black. it's not hard to see even today.
there's a reason the two terms "jayhawkers" and "abolitionists" exist. they have very different meanings. today's kansans will go to great lengths to convince themselves and anyone who will listen that the two terms are synonyms and interchangeable, when in fact they had very, VERY different meanings.
it wasn't until well after the civil rights movement that kansans started to distance themselves from their deeply-held pride and long-honored practice of remaining strictly anti-black. it's not hard to see even today.
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they also ran a pretty good racket patrolling the borders - phrejd STL - 8/6 13:37:43