Battle of Black Jack

This "battle" was part of the struggle to make Kansas a free state. In May, 1856, Proslavery men destroyed buildings and newspaper presses in Lawrence, Free-State headquarters. John Brown's company then killed five Proslavery men on Pottawatomie Creek not far ...

The Battle of Black Jack

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"Civil War in Kansas!"

"Let not the knives of pro-slavery men be sheathed while there is one abolitionist in the Territory."

Squatter, Sovereign, proslavery newspaper in Atchison, Kansas Territory, June 10, 1856

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Battle of Black Jack

This "battle" was part of the struggle to make Kansas a free state. In May, 1856, Proslavery men destroyed buildings and newspaper presses in Lawrence, Free-State headquarters. John Brown's company then killed five Proslavery men on Pottawatomie Creek not far ...