Josiah Miller, an Antislavery Southerner

Article on Josiah Miller, an antislavery newspaper man from South Carolina who settled in Lawrence, Kansas in 1854. Shortly after arriving, he left the newspaper business and became involved in local politics, serving as a probate judge and a state senator for Douglas County. Between 1854 and 1858, Miller kept an "active" correspondence with his parents, chronicling the early settlement of Lawrence and Bleeding Kansas period. The article reprints 11 of Miller's letters to his parents and includes information on an encounter his siblings had with Missouri guerrilla leader William Quantrill.