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    The New England Emigrant Aid Company (originally the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company) was a transportation company founded in Boston, Massachusetts...
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    Examples include: The New England Emigrant Aid Company The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick The Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland Charitable...
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    changed to the New England Emigrant Aid Company.[citation needed] The motives of Thayer in establishing the New England Emigrant Aid Company were questioned...
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    heckled and harassed by border ruffians. In response, the New England Emigrant Aid Company shipped Sharps rifles to the Kansas Territory, in crates said...
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    well as other newspapers in the area. He was a leader of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. He was a younger brother of activist Susan B. Anthony. He...
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    settlers from Massachusetts who had been sent there by the New England Emigrant Aid Company, which was created by Eli Thayer. "WWHP - WWHP Newsletter Vol...
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    assistance from benevolent societies such as the Boston-based New England Emigrant Aid Company, founded shortly before passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act...
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    from New England, in part because there was an organized emigration of settlers to Kansas Territory arranged by the New England Emigrant Aid Company beginning...
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    the New England Emigrant Aid Company as a Free-State town in the 1850s, during the Bleeding Kansas era. Nicknamed "The Little Apple" as a play on New York...
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    Lawrence, Kansas (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    by the New England Emigrant Aid Company (NEEAC) and was named for Amos A. Lawrence, an abolitionist from Massachusetts, who offered financial aid and support...
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  • (January 19, 1808 — May 14, 1887) American Colonization Society New England Emigrant Aid Company New York Central College The North Star (anti-slavery newspaper)...
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    House Hotel can trace its origin back to the New England Emigrant Aid Company, which was a transportation company in Boston, Massachusetts, created after the...
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    New England Emigrant Aid Company. Goodnow had been a committed abolitionist since at least 1840. After hearing a speech given by New England Emigrant...
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    University. The street was given its name by members of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, most of whom were from the state of Massachusetts. In 2014...
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    Vermont. His father moved to Lawrence, Kansas in 1854 with the New England Emigrant Aid Company while Haskell was attending Brown University and had an architect...
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    Massachusetts, many of whom received financial support from the New England Emigrant Aid Company. The town was the de facto headquarters of Free-State Kansas...
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    the New England Emigrant Aid Company, organized by Eli Thayer. Emigration from the free states (including Iowa, Ohio, and other Midwestern and New England...
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  • School Eli Thayer 1840, founder of the Oread Institute and the New England Emigrant Aid Company Webster Thayer 1876, Massachusetts judge, presided over the...
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    600, rapidly settled by migrants. They were supported by the New England Emigrant Aid Company, who were trying to help secure Kansas as a free territory...
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    tales... In 1854, his family became part of the newly formed New England Emigrant Aid Company, an organization whose goal was to help settle the Kansas Territory...
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    Johnson, Samuel A. (1954). The Battle Cry of Freedom: The New England Emigrant Aid Company in the Kansas Crusade. Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana...
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  • stay and many others to leave as soon as they had voted. The New England Emigrant Aid Company helped a smaller number of anti-slavery settlers move to Kansas...
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    Missouri. When the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was passed, the New England Emigrant Aid Company paid for Northern abolitionists to move to Kansas. As a response...
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    illegally vote in an attempt to sway local elections. The New England Emigrant Aid Company also sought to bring anti-slavery settlers into the territory...
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  • Futures New Communities New England Anti-Slavery Society New England Emigrant Aid Company New Great Migration New Jack City New jack swing New Jersey Drive...
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    departed with his brother John for the Kansas Territory with the New England Emigrant Aid Company to populate that territory with anti-slavery settlers. He worked...
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    Union when she set out with the New England Emigrant Aid Company for Kansas Territory in 1855. North American Phalanx The New Jersey Historical Society jas...
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    member of the second New England Emigrant Aid Company party that left from Boston in 1854 as an anti-slavery immigration to the new territory. He was a...
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    Kansas, having volunteered to go to Kansas Territory with the New England Emigrant Aid Company in 1855 to fight against the extension of slavery. Denison...
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    of 29 New England settlers who came to found what later became Lawrence, Kansas, in August 1854 as part of the New England Emigrant Aid Company's "pioneer...
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