Free-Staters
Kansas antislavery settlers
Free-Staters are advocates or residents of a "free state"—a term with different meanings in different contexts.
In American history, Free-Staters opposed the extension of slavery into new territories, particularly in Kansas during the 1850s: Free-Staters and pro-slavery settlers clashed in Bleeding Kansas.
In Irish history, Free-Staters supported the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State, as opposed to Republicans who rejected partition.
More recently, Free-Staters are participants in the Free State Project, a libertarian movement encouraging migration to New Hampshire to concentrate political influence: The Free-Staters want to reduce government to a minimum.
Favoring legalized human ownership
- Missouri Compromise1820 slavery boundary legislation
- TopekaKansas state capital
- LawrenceKansas university city
- John BrownRadical antislavery insurrectionist
territory · settlers · constitution · Sumner · abolitionists · Kansas-Nebraska Act · popular sovereignty
Those opposing human bondage
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- John BrownRadical antislavery insurrectionist
- fugitiveOne fleeing authorities
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · Quakers · Sojourner Truth · Dred Scott · manumission · antislavery · resistance
Independent management of affairs
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- independenceFreedom from external control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
self-rule · devolution · federalism · self-sufficiency · localism · subsidiarity · self-reliance · noninterference
Northeastern state, smallest land
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
- individualismDoctrine of personal independence
- migrationMovement to new territory
- activismDirect effort for reform
proslavery
Favoring legalized human ownership
- Missouri Compromise1820 slavery boundary legislation
- TopekaKansas state capital
- LawrenceKansas university city
John Brown · territory · settlers · constitution · Sumner · abolitionists · Kansas-Nebraska Act · popular sovereignty
abolitionists
Those opposing human bondage
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- John BrownRadical antislavery insurrectionist
- fugitiveOne fleeing authorities
Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · abolition · Quakers · Sojourner Truth · Dred Scott · manumission · antislavery · resistance · rebellion
self-governance
Independent management of affairs
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- independenceFreedom from external control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
decentralization · self-rule · devolution · federalism · self-sufficiency · localism · subsidiarity · self-reliance · noninterference · empowerment
New Hampshire
Northeastern state, smallest land
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
- individualismDoctrine of personal independence
- migrationMovement to new territory
activism · decentralization · self-reliance · noninterventionism