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Free-State Battery
During the year 1856, the Pro-Slavery people of Missouri virtually cut off Free-State emigration to Kansas Territory by the way of the Missouri River. Numerous emigrant parties were intercepted and turned back. This circumstance led to an organized emigration to Kansas Territory overland through Iowa.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
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