Proslavery Missourian raiders within Kansas Territory
Not to be confused with Border reivers.
An illustration of border ruffians entering the Kansas Territory by F. O. C. Darley.
Border ruffians were proslavery raiders who crossed into the Kansas Territory from Missouri during the mid-19th century to help ensure the territory entered the United States as a slave state. Their activities formed a major part of a series of violent civil confrontations known as "Bleeding Kansas", which peaked from 1854 to 1858. Crimes committed by border ruffians included electoral fraud, intimidation, assault, property damage and murder; many border ruffians took pride in their reputation as criminals. After the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, many border ruffians fought on the side of the Confederate States of America as irregular bushwhackers.
Borderruffians were proslavery raiders who crossed into the Kansas Territory from Missouri during the mid-19th century to help ensure the territory entered...
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pro-slavery groups from Missouri, known at the time in Kansas Territory as "BorderRuffians" or "Bushwhackers". After the Civil War, the word "Jayhawker" became...
out in the Kansas Territory and neighboring Missouri by proslavery "borderruffians" and retaliatory raids carried out by antislavery "free-staters". According...
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and Missouri, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "BorderRuffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier...
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newspaper publisher and soldier. A strong advocate of slavery, he was a borderruffian in the "Bleeding Kansas" unrest. He is best known for his conflict with...
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between Hamilton and Finney counties. It was reestablished with its original borders in 1887, and organized on March 27, 1888. In 1889, the name was corrected...
sporadic violence known as Bleeding Kansas, a group of pro-slavery borderruffians captured 11 abolitionist free-staters. The prisoners were forced to...
Massacre of May, 1856. However, he was captured by Henry Clay Pate, a borderruffian and commander of a proslavery militia, in connection with the murders...
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engagement that occurred on August 30, 1856, when 250–400 pro-slavery Borderruffians, led by John W. Reid, attacked the town of Osawatomie, Kansas, which...
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called Free-Staters and Free-Soilers, and fought against pro-slavery BorderRuffians from Missouri. The animosity escalated throughout the 1850s, culminating...
to counter growing pro-slavery presence: an influx of men known as borderruffians, from the neighboring slave state of Missouri. Led by John Brown's...
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