Quote:
Originally Posted by special-K
About your user name, I'm curious how you decided on that one, f you don't mind. Reason I ask is I'm in Maryland and I always associate Freestate with that. Is there another place with that name? Just being curious about history.
|
Tim, here's a little more detail on Kansas being a free state.
Free-Staters were those settlers in Kansas Territory during the Bleeding Kansas era in the 1850s who opposed the extension of slavery to Kansas. The name derives from the term "free state", that is, a U.S. state without slavery.
http://www.civilwaronthewesternborde...ee-state-party
Freestate, Rock Chalk!