Jane Dawson writes about the ‘Remembering Muted Voices’ symposium

Conscience and dissent

Jane Dawson writes about the ‘Remembering Muted Voices’ symposium

by Jane Dawson 10th November 2017

Kansas City, Missouri was once the western frontier of the United States. The sprawling Mississippi flanks its border with the state of Kansas. It marks a boundary, the former division between the Northern states (the Union) and the slave-owning states of the South.