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oct 1, 1859 - John Brown & The Pottawatomie Massacre

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Many people opposed the brutality of the abolitionist John Brown and the Pottawatomie Massacre. Three years later, Brown left Kansas to begin a slave uprising at the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He was caught and hanged as a traitor to the United States.

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oct 1, 1859
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~ 166 years ago

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