Description
"Old D. R. Anthony (Daniel Read Anthony) says that the negro burned at Leavenworth (Fred Alexander) was burned by Platte County white cappers and Leavenworth thugs. This is about as good as we expected from old D. R. and since we have learned that he was related to the nigger it is not as much as we expected."
(Researcher's note: AI Overview - "Daniel Read (D.R.) Anthony was a prominent 19th-century abolitionist, publisher, women's suffragist, and the brother of Susan B. Anthony. Relocating to Leavenworth, Kansas in 1857, he founded a newspaper dynasty, served as the city's mayor and postmaster, and fought fiercely to ensure Kansas entered the Union as a free state." Anthony may have been involved in the Underground Railroad.
"Beginning in the 1870s, multiple secret vigilante groups were formed across the United States to violently resist the changing social and moral standards of the country. These groups, collectively known as White Caps, originated in Southern Indiana, and later spread across the United States in the last part of the nineteenth century, committing brutal acts of terrorism against anyone whom the group deemed a threat to the moral and social standards of their specific community." https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/items/447ea248-5d87-4641-b917-c44a8987b95f)Date(s) of Creation
1/18/1901
