Pottawatomie Massacre Escalates Bleeding Kansas Violence, 29 Dead in Three Months
On the night of May 24-25, 1856, radical abolitionist John Brown, five of his sons, and three other associates murder five pro-slavery men at three different cabins along Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas Territory. The victims—James P. Doyle and his sons William and Drury, William Sherman, and Allen …
John Brown
Pottawatomie Rifles
Pro-slavery settlers
Free-State settlers
bleeding-kansas
political-violence
slavery-conflict
territorial-violence
pottawatomie-massacre
Read more →