Free-Stater (Kansas)

Many of the "free-staters" joined the Jayhawkers in their fight against slavery and to make Kansas a free state.

Many Free-Staters were abolitionists from New England, in part because there was an organized emigration of settlers to Kansas Territory arranged by the New England Emigrant Aid Company beginning in 1854.

Other Free-Staters were abolitionists who came to Kansas Territory from Ohio, Iowa, and other midwestern states.

[4][5] As time passed and the violence in Bleeding Kansas escalated, the Free-State movement became more popular.

[7] The Confederate States of America seceded in the next month and Jefferson Davis was sworn in as their president February 18, 1861.