border ruffian

In U.S. history, "Border Ruffians" were pro-slavery sympathizers who infiltrated into Kansas from the slave state of Missouri in the 1850s to harass abolitionists and others who desired Kansas to be admitted to the Union as a "free state" (one in which slavery was forbidden). At one point, they razed the town of Lawrence, Kansas entirely. They also crossed the border into Kansas to vote on occasion, especially in favor of the "Lecampton Constitution", a proposed state constitution drafted by a convention of dubious validity which allowed for slavery. See also: Jayhawks; Bleeding Kansas

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