The fifth victim floated nearby as John Brown and ... Geary, arrived in Kansas and began to restore order. The last major outbreak of violence was the Marais des Cynges massacre, in which Border ...

Senate Representative Preston Brooks caning Senator Charles Sumner for his speech on "The Crime Against Kansas" is an event ...

John Brown put little stock in the idea of abolition through peaceful means. In 1855, he gathered his arsenal and left his home for the slave state of Kansas, where he would begin his bloody struggle.

introduces Brown to influential abolitionists in the Boston area in effort to further antislavery fight in Kansas. These acquaintances will later constitute the members of the "Secret Six." John ...

Sumner would never fully recover. Newspapers across the South celebrated the assault, but when news of the incident reached John Brown's encampment in Kansas, he and his followers were enraged.