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"Beecher's Bibles" was the name given to the breech-loading Sharps rifle that were supplied to and used by the anti-slavery settlers and combatants in Kansas, during the Bleeding Kansas period (1854–1860). The breech loading model 1853 Sharps Carbines were shipped in crates marked "Books and Bibles". After an 1856 article in the New-York Tribune carried a quote by Henry Ward Beecher, the Sharps Carbines became known as Beecher's Bibles.

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  • Beecher's Bibles (en)
  • Bibles de Beecher (fr)
  • Bibbie di Beecher (it)
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  • "Beecher's Bibles" was the name given to the breech-loading Sharps rifle that were supplied to and used by the anti-slavery settlers and combatants in Kansas, during the Bleeding Kansas period (1854–1860). The breech loading model 1853 Sharps Carbines were shipped in crates marked "Books and Bibles". After an 1856 article in the New-York Tribune carried a quote by Henry Ward Beecher, the Sharps Carbines became known as Beecher's Bibles. (en)
  • Bibbie di Beecher era il soprannome dato ai fucili a retrocarica Sharps forniti agli immigrati antischiavisti in Kansas. (it)
  • Les Bibles de Beecher désignent les fusils Sharps envoyés par l'ecclésiastique et écrivain américain Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) aux abolitionnistes, en 1854, lors de la croisade du Kansas en organisant des souscriptions. Farouche opposant à l'esclavage, il leva à plusieurs reprises des fonds au moment des troubles du Kansas, qui virent les Border Ruffians attaquer les villes créées par les abolitionnistes. Ses envois de caisses de « bibles » contenaient en réalité des fusils et des carabines Sharps, d'où le surnom de « bibles de Beecher » qui est resté attaché à ces armes. (fr)
  • "Beecher's Bibles" foi o pelido dado aos rifles Sharps que eram fornecidos aos combatentes abolicionistas no Kansas. O nome "Beecher's Bibles" ("Bíblias de Beecher"), em referência às carabinas e rifles Sharps, foi inspirado nos comentários e atividades do ministro abolicionista da Nova Inglaterra, Henry Ward Beecher, da , sobre quem foi publicado em 8 de fevereiro de 1856, um artigo no New-York Tribune: (pt)
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  • "Beecher's Bibles" was the name given to the breech-loading Sharps rifle that were supplied to and used by the anti-slavery settlers and combatants in Kansas, during the Bleeding Kansas period (1854–1860). The breech loading model 1853 Sharps Carbines were shipped in crates marked "Books and Bibles". After an 1856 article in the New-York Tribune carried a quote by Henry Ward Beecher, the Sharps Carbines became known as Beecher's Bibles. (en)
  • Les Bibles de Beecher désignent les fusils Sharps envoyés par l'ecclésiastique et écrivain américain Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) aux abolitionnistes, en 1854, lors de la croisade du Kansas en organisant des souscriptions. Farouche opposant à l'esclavage, il leva à plusieurs reprises des fonds au moment des troubles du Kansas, qui virent les Border Ruffians attaquer les villes créées par les abolitionnistes. Ses envois de caisses de « bibles » contenaient en réalité des fusils et des carabines Sharps, d'où le surnom de « bibles de Beecher » qui est resté attaché à ces armes. Henry Ward Beecher était le frère d'Harriet Beecher Stowe, autre icône de la lutte anti-esclavagiste, dont le roman, La Case de l'oncle Tom, a fait le tour du monde. (fr)
  • Bibbie di Beecher era il soprannome dato ai fucili a retrocarica Sharps forniti agli immigrati antischiavisti in Kansas. (it)
  • "Beecher's Bibles" foi o pelido dado aos rifles Sharps que eram fornecidos aos combatentes abolicionistas no Kansas. O nome "Beecher's Bibles" ("Bíblias de Beecher"), em referência às carabinas e rifles Sharps, foi inspirado nos comentários e atividades do ministro abolicionista da Nova Inglaterra, Henry Ward Beecher, da , sobre quem foi publicado em 8 de fevereiro de 1856, um artigo no New-York Tribune: Ele (Henry W. Beecher) acreditava que o Rifle Sharps era um verdadeiro agente moral e que havia mais poder moral em um desses instrumentos, no que dizia respeito aos proprietários de escravos do Kansas, do que em cem Bíblias. Você pode também... ler a Bíblia para os búfalos assim como aqueles que seguem e (confederados); mas eles têm um respeito supremo pela lógica que está incorporada no rifle Sharp. (pt)
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