Race and utopia and more race and reality.
I forgot to say in the narration that Kansas was a proximate cause to the American Civil War since the Missouri Compromise dictated that new states be admitted to the union in pairs, one slave and one free. When Nebraska and Kansas petitioned for statehood, those who clung to the Compromise insisted Kansas be admitted as a slave state. Most Kansasans had no interest in slavery as a practical measure on the plains, and the Jayhawk War ensured among Kansasans and other who went to Kansas to wage this ideological war over slavery. It showed that people would fight over the matter.
The Monroe School museum has much too offer and I regret not taking more pictures so as to have more to upon which to comment. It brought those times back to me, as I did say in the narration. And there is much more to it than the story of the court case, though that is a great story. I will go again if I have the chance.