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John Brown and several of his sons went to Kansas after the Kansas Nebraska Act to fight settlers there who were pro-slavery. Brown and his sons, and there is no doubt about this, massacred five pro-slavery men in front of their families. Brown somehow escaped capture and prosecution for these crimes. His next move, financed by wealth New England abolitionists was the aborted slave revolt near Harper's Ferry Virginia. No slaves joined the revolt and Brown was executed in December of 1859. By raiding the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry and attempting to incite a revolution was treason. Virginia took him into custody and tried him for treason against Virginia, however, it was a Federal crime and he should have been tried in a Federal court.

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Brown (John Brown) and his men killed five pro-slavery men in cold blood in Kansas in what became known as the Pottawatomie Massacre.


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