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John Brown: Terrorist, Hero or Terrorist Hero?

Behind the Bastards

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John Brown and the Battle of Kansas

In 1855 John Brown and five of his sons arrived in Kansas to fight against pro-slavery militia men. The conflict proved to be one of the bloodiest pre-civil war chapters in America's battle over slavery. It was also the event that launched him on the path that would guarantee him several paragraphs in American history textbooks for years to come.

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