Annotated Bibliography
Alchin Linda. “Kansas Nebraska Act.” American-hsitorama.org, 1st, July 2014,
http://www.american-historama.org/1850-1860-secession-era/kansas-nebraska-act.htm
This source was useful for the purpose of the reasoning behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act and how it explained the purpose for moving westward while providing formations for the two territories. It also helped me have a general and base understanding of what the Kansas-Nebraska Act was.
“Bleeding Kansas.” Khanacademy.org
The reasons and the description of what Bleeding Kansas was and the principles of why it was caused and effects behind it. The struggles and the pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces collided in Kansas which dictated the future of slavery.
Garrison, Zach. “Popular Sovereignty” Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas
Conflict, 1854-1865. The Kansas City Public Library. Accessed Feb 05, 2019 at
http://www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org/encyclopedia/popular-sovereignty
Zach expresses how important popular sovereignty was by it being the people’s vote whether they wanted slavery or not. It also, explained the principles of popular sovereignty in order to address the slavery debate, this time in the Kansas and Nebraska territories. This source gave heavily and strong idea and understanding not only what popular sovereignty was but where popular sovereignty was been approved prior to this Act.
History.comStaff. “Kansas-Nebraska Act.” css.histry.com 2009
https://css.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act
Another based objective of what Kansas-Nebraska Act was. The video was very helpful because in the two-minute video, it showed and explained thoroughly conflicts that arose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers.
“Sound Smart: Bleeding Kansas.” YouTube, uploaded by HISTORY, 18TH Nov 2016,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZJc7B8xsc.
A lot of detailed factors of why the Bleeding Kansas led the way for American Civil War. The explaining in 1861 when Kansas submitted to be a free state.
“The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Party Realignment” khanacademy.org
An overview of exactly the Kansas-Nebraska Act was on terms of it passed in 1854 it being, reopened over the debate over the expansion of slavery in the United States, also the principle of popular sovereignty applying, determining their policy on slavery.
Brandyn Winn – Annotated Bibliography
Bernarda Bryson, Runaway slave, 1935, Library of Congress, Washington DC, accessed February 6, 2019, https://www.loc.gov/item/2004678968/
– Source provided an image that fit my topic.
Child, Lydia Maria Francis. The duty of disobedience to the Fugitive slave act : an appeal to the legislators of Massachusetts. Anti-slavery tracts.New series ;no. 9 Boston, 1860. Slavery and Anti-Slavery. Gale. Old Dominion University Library. 6 Feb. 2019
– Her book provided a good secondary source from that era. She spoke about her dissatisfaction with the government and pushed for the abolishment of slavery.
Confiscation Act of 1861
E.C. del., Practical illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1851, Library of Congress, Wahington DC, accessed February 6th, 2019, https://www.loc.gov/item/2008661534/
-I used an image from this site because it provides imagery for the Fugitive Slave Act. It includes a slave catcher wielding a noose in his efforts to return a fugitive slave back to it’s owner in the south
Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
– Reading the acts directly gave me the knowledge to present them in more modernized terms to the class and explain them in my essay.
John Andrews, Anthony Burns / drawn by Barry from a daguereotype [sic] by Whipple & Black ; John Andrews, sc., 1855, Library of Congress, Washington DC, accessed February 8th, 2019, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003689280/
-Provided me with a drawing of Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave who was placed on trial, and gave brief insight into his life and trial.
Leanne White – Lecture 2/1/19 & 2/4/19
– Lectures provided insight on the conflict between Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery movements in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s.
“Dred Scott Case Trials.” National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, www.nps.gov/resources/story.htm%3Fid%3D196.
This NPS article gave deeper insight on how the Dred Scott Supreme Court case went down, as well as the outcome and public response to the case
“Dred Scott’s Fight for Freedom.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html.
PBS write-up with many intricate details of Scott’s life, mainly used to learn about all of the events leading up to the trial.
“Scott v. Sandford.” LII / Legal Information Institute, Legal Information Institute, www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/60/393.
Case page from the Legal Information Institute, has transcripts from the case and allowed me to read exactly what was ruled by the courts.