Pottawatomie massacre

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The Pottawatomie massacre was an 1856 episode of anti-slavery violence in Kansas in which abolitionist John Brown and his followers killed five pro-slavery settlers, escalating tensions that helped lead to the American Civil War.

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Bleeding Kansas crisis hasPart Pottawatomie massacre