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The Pottawatomie massacre occurred on the night of May 24–25, 1856, in the Kansas Territory, United States.In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery forces on May 21, and the telegraphed news of the severe attack on Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers—some of them members of the Pottawatomie Rifles—responded violently.
In 1941, a Veterans of Foreign Wars post donated the site of the massacre and Hadsall's house to the state of Kansas, [9] which designated it as the Marais des Cygnes Massacre Memorial Park. From 1961–1962, the home underwent a renovation, after which it was transferred to Kansas Historical Society administration. In 1964, part of the house ...
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War, was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas .
While the "Bleeding Kansas" era is generally regarded as beginning in 1856, the earliest documented uses of the term "jayhawker" during the Kansas troubles were in the late 1850s, after the issue of slavery in Kansas had essentially been decided in favor of the Free State cause.
The sacking of Lawrence occurred on May 21, 1856, when pro-slavery settlers, led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones, attacked and ransacked Lawrence, Kansas, a town that had been founded by anti-slavery settlers from Massachusetts who were hoping to make Kansas a free state.
Lawrence: Free State Fortress (1998) depicts the attack on Lawrence. In Ride with the Devil (1999), protagonists ride with "Black John Ambrose", who is a loose portrayal of "Bloody Bill" Anderson and later join with Quantrill for the raid on Kansas. Quantrill, Anderson, and most Raiders are portrayed as bloodthirsty and murderous.
It began with a gruesome midnight massacre in a small town in Kansas." MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History Winter 2012: 22+. Academic OneFile. Web. October 2, 2014. Nichols, Alice. Bleeding Kansas. New York: Oxford UP, 1954. Selbert, Pamela. "Crimson Kansas: retracing the state's turbulent days before entering the Union." Motorhome ...
The Lawrence Massacre (also known as Quantrill's Raid) was an attack during the American Civil War (1861–65) by Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerrilla group led by William Quantrill, on the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas, killing around 150 men and boys.