"Beecher's Bibles" is the name given to the rifles that were supplied to the Free-Soil party emigrants during their emigration to Kansas. The suggestion for the name came from the emininent minister Henry Ward Beecher. The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States organized in 1848 that petered out by about 1852. ... Henry Ward Beecher Henry Ward Beecher in Columbus Park, Brooklyn, New York, 2003 Full statue Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887) was a theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman and reformer, and author who was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the eighth of nine children of Lyman Beecher by...
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Henry War Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the son of Lyman Beecher, a prominent Congregationalist minister and educator.
Beecher graduated from Amherst College in 1834 and studied at Lane Theological Seminary where his father was serving as president.
In 1854 Beecher and his congregation were strongly opposed to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and launched a fund-raising drive to purchase rifles to arm the antislavery forces in the territories.
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