Public Meeting!!

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Title: Public Meeting!!
Creator: The Batavia Democrat
Description: This broadside announces a public meeting featuring a speech by Rev. Fred Starr, Jr., who was driven out of Kansas for his anti-slavery stance. Starr will address the audience about “the recent Outrages against the free Citizens of Kansas, by which the Right of Suffrage has been Invaded! The Pulpit Overthrown! The Missionaries Dispersed! The Press Destroyed! And the Liberty of Speech denied to Freemen.” The announcement was printed June 4, 1855 at the office of the Batavia Democrat, presumably in Batavia, New York.
Date: June 4, 1855
Local Subject: Picturing the War
Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
African Americans
People: The Batavia Democrat
Object Type: Broadside
Owning Organization: State Historical Society of Missouri – Columbia
Location: Starr, Frederick, Jr. (1826-1867), Papers, 1850-1863; C2073: f. 5, Broadsides 1855
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