At first, abolitionists and free-staters, while both against slavery, held very different views on the subject. Abolitionists were against any kind of slavery anywhere. They wanted equal rights for black people.[5] Free-staters did not want blacks, slave or free, in Kansas. Most were prejudiced against black people believing the popular idea they were inferior.[6] Gradually the two groups began to compromise and work together to prevent slavery in Kansas.[6]
