Inside View of the Lower Prison Room at Lecompton 185-? Artist's sketch. Drawing depicts how the Free-State men were held prisoner by Pro-slavery men at Lecompton. The man at the left, reading a letter aloud, is Col. Henry C. Titus. He was trying to persuade the prisoners to join him in a filibustering expedition to Nicaragua. The illustration was originally taken from John Speer's <Life of Gen. James H. Lane> (1896). Information taken from David Dary's <Pictorial History of Lawrence Douglas County, Kansas>. Pictured: William Bowles; O. Langworthy; Th. Bikerton; Jos. Boyer; T.P. Brown; A. Cutler; C. Hyde; J. Stone; A.J. Payne; Th. W. Porterfield; P.R. White; A.H. Parker still image Kansas--Lecompton Prisoners Prisons Abolitionists 1850-1860 Sooley Smith Abolition movement photograph electronic image/tiff reformatted digital photoprint Original:Drawing by William Breyman 12 x 19 cm. RH PH P694 Transfer from pigeonhole RH S43. University of Kansas University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. ku-kscoll:2508 https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kscoll/2508 ksrl-kc-rhphp694.tif ku-kscoll_2508_MODS MODS record generated from local records in Luna XML and EAD finding aid. Processed, with additional values/elements added by Digital Initiatives, KU Libraries. eng 2019-03-27