2 дек 1859 г. - John Brown

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In 1854 several of Brown’s sons settled at Osawatomie, in Kansas Territory. Brown joined them in the bloody fights to make Kansas a free state. (One son was killed in a skirmish.) In May 1856 Brown led a small band of men who sought revenge for murders by proslavery mobs and brutally killed five settlers suspected of proslavery beliefs. He became feared as “Old Osawatomie Brown,” a ruthless guerrilla leader pitted against the slaveholders. When the Kansas question was settled in favor of freedom, Brown schemed for a slave insurrection in the South itself.Convicted by the Commonwealth of Virginia of treason, murder, and inciting slaves to rebellion, Brown was hanged on December 2, 1859, in Charles Town, Virginia .This helped divide the country by the South getting mad at the North.