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John Brown executed
John Brown was executed for charges related to his raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown, with allies including five black men, led an armed abolitionist raid on the Harpers Ferry arsenal in Virginia. Two days later the US Army, led by Colonel Robert E. Lee, stormed Harpers Ferry and captured Brown.
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Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
In reprisal for the Sack of Lawrence and the attack on Charles Sumner, John Brown and six companions murdered five pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas. A war of reprisals left 200 dead in “Bleeding Kansas.”
Glossary Term – Event
Violence in “Bleeding Kansas”
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces in Kansas clashed in a series of violent conflicts throughout the 1850s.