{"id":3778,"date":"2008-10-23T10:15:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T17:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2008-10-23T10:15:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T17:15:46","slug":"subversive-historian-102308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/10\/23\/subversive-historian-102308\/","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Historian &#8211; 10\/23\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_10_23_08\/2008_10_23_sh.mp3\"> today&#8217;s Subversive Historian <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drooker.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"\/home\/graphics\/Censorship.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Drooker\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>The Topeka Constitution by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One-hundred and fifty three years ago on this day in people&#8217;s history, delegates gathered for the Topeka Constitutional Convention in Kansas. On October 23rd, 1855, the first attempt to draft a constitution to establish the then-territory as a state took place in the political context of the struggle for free vs. slave states. The convention was convened in direct response to the pro-slavery territorial legislature which came to power through questionable elections the spring before. The newly drafted Topeka Constitution, approved in December 1855, contained provisions such as Article one, section 6 which declared that &#8220;there shall be no slavery in this state, nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crime.&#8221; However, it also contained language that limited suffrage to &#8220;every white male person and every civilized male Indian who has adopted the habits of the white man.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Seriously, what was the matter with Kansas? <\/p>\n<p><em>For Uprising, this is your truth professa&#8217; saying it&#8217;s no mystery why they conceal our history!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to today&#8217;s Subversive Historian The Topeka Constitution by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman One-hundred and fifty three years ago on this day in people&#8217;s history, delegates gathered for the Topeka Constitutional Convention in Kansas. On October 23rd, 1855, the first attempt to draft a constitution to establish the then-territory as a state took place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}