Antislavery settlers meet at Topeka and hold…
November 1855 CE
Antislavery settlers meet at Topeka and hold a constitutional convention from October 23 to November 12, 1855, after proslavery elements (largely “border ruffians” from Missouri) succeed in establishing a proslavery legislature in Kansas.
The resultant Topeka Constitution bans slavery; the question of admitting free blacks into the state is submitted to a popular vote as a separate issue.