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Bleeding Kansas describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas...
Bleeding Kansas, (1854–59), small civil war in the United States, fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas under the doctrine of popular sovereignty.
Between roughly 1855 and 1859, Kansans engaged in a violent guerrilla war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in an event known as Bleeding Kansas, which significantly shaped American politics and contributed to the coming of the Civil War.
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.
Bleeding Kansas foreshadowed the violence that would ensue over the future of slavery during the Civil War. Border ruffians. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act reopened the question of extending slavery to new states north of the Missouri Compromise line established in 1820.
Following their successful raids on pro-slavery strongholds in eastern Kansas, John Brown and his followers returned to their base of operations at Osawatomie. Seeking retaliation, John W. Reid led several hundred Missouri Border Ruffians into Kansas in late August.
Altogether, 55 people were killed in the territory from 1854 to 1861. The violence served to deepen the North-South divide on slavery, making a civil war imminent. Epps points out that the...
During Bleeding Kansas, murder, mayhem, destruction and psychological warfare became a code of conduct in Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri. A well-known examples of this violence was the massacre in May 1856 at Pottawatomie Creek where John Brown and his sons killed five pro-slavery advocates.
After a May 21, 1856, attack on Lawrence by proslave forces, Brown and his followers raided the proslave settlements along Pottawatomie Creek, hacking the victims up with Army surplus swords purchased by their abolitionist backers. Federal troops finally quelled the violence, but not until after at least 50 settlers had died.
Bleeding Kansas. An excerpt from Lydia Maria Child’s dramatic retelling of the attack on Lawrence, Kansas. On the 21st of May, 1856, Lawrence was “wiped out.”. Companies of Ruffians encamped around it; a furious tipsy crew, in motley garments.