QUANTRILL'S RAID: THE DESTRUCTION AND REBUILDING OF LAWRENCE KANSAS
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  • Historical Context
    • Kansas-Nebraska Act
    • Early Lawrence, Kansas
    • Bleeding Kansas
  • Tragedy of Lawrence
    • Quantrill & His Path
    • The Raid
    • Aftermath >
      • Local
      • National
  • Triumph of Lawrence
    • Rebuilding
    • Legacy
  • Conclusion

QUANTRILL'S RAID: THE DESTRUCTION AND REBUILDING OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS

we are in the midst of war—war of the most bloody kind—a war of extermination. Freedom and slavery are interlocked in deadly embrace, and death is certain for one or the other party."
​Julia Louisa Lovejoy, Watkins Museum of History, 1856
Painting of Quantrill's Raid "Blood Stained Dawn", 1991, Watkins Museum of History.

THESIS

​The divisive actions pursued by the United States Federal Government during the
mid-nineteenth century led to ​
William Quantrill's destruction of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863. Despite the massive destruction and ​carnage Quantrill's raid produced, Lawrence was triumphantly able to embrace the tragedy by rebuilding stronger than it was before.

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  • Home
  • Historical Context
    • Kansas-Nebraska Act
    • Early Lawrence, Kansas
    • Bleeding Kansas
  • Tragedy of Lawrence
    • Quantrill & His Path
    • The Raid
    • Aftermath >
      • Local
      • National
  • Triumph of Lawrence
    • Rebuilding
    • Legacy
  • Conclusion