More than two years have passed since U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Since that day, emancipation of slaves has come about bit by bit, and is yet far from complete. Today the latest chapter in this ongoing saga takes place in Kansas City, Kansas, where the city’s remaining black slaves are emancipated,…
On the site of what will one day be the Kansas City, Missouri zoo, the Battle of Westport takes place. The battle proves to be a culmination of major activity in the state, as a Union win effectively overcomes the little remaining resistance to Union rule in Missouri. Not only is the battle significant in…
Today Missouri Baptist pastor Jonathan B. Fuller writes a letter from Kansas City addressed to his father back East. Fuller’s words reflect the ongoing tension in the near West border states, tensions that garner little notice in the midst of major battle campaigns in Virginia and Georgia. As Fuller relates, Sunday church attendance has been…