John Brown attacks a proslavery community close to the Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas

John Brown and his sons attack pro slavery settlers living along Pottawatomie Creek about thirty miles from Lawrence, Kansas. In revenge for the recent sacking of Lawrence, they seek out Law and Order Party members and kill five in cold blood. (By Don Sailer)
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John Brown, Returns to Kansas after Missouri Raid (Reynolds, 2005)

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David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, rev. ed. (New York: Vintage Books, 2005), 279.
[John] Brown and [Aaron] Stevens joined up at daybreak. Between them, they had eleven blacks representing four families: Jim Daniels with his wife and children; a widowed mother with two daughters and a son; a young man and a boy who were brothers; and a woman who had been forced to live separately from her husband…The blacks were taken thirty-five miles to Augustus Wattle's cabin in Moneka, Kansas, near Osawatomie. Before joining them Brown lingered near the state line to watch for any Missourians who might try to retaliate for his act.
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
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