This man and James Lane organized settlers into an army in the Wakarusa War, and he fought Henry Pate in the Battle of Black Jack.
This man and James Lane organized settlers into an army in the Wakarusa War, and he fought Henry Pate in the Battle of Black Jack. In an event provoked by the sacking of free-soil town Lawrence, this man gained notoriety after hacking the family of James Doyle to death. One action undertaken by this man was prepared for by receiving shipments of "Beecher's Bibles" and pikes, and after his hanging for this failed action Emerson and Thoreau hailed him as a martyr. Heavily involved in the Bleeding Kansas conflict and the leader of the Pottawatomie Massacre, for 10 points, identify this radical abolitionist who failed to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry.
This man and James Lane organized settlers into an army in the Wakarusa War, and he fought Henry Pate in the Battle of Black Jack.
John Brown