By Geoffrey M Horn
John Brown joined the facet of free-staters within the clash within the Kansas Territory, struggling with to have Kansas input the Union as an anti-slavery nation. background has proven that his activities and the reactions to them have been one of the such a lot powerful precursors of the outbreak of the Civil battle in 1861.
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