own foresaw that God, and many others, would understand his actions to be necessary and proper. The man who owns a slave is ten times more guilty than the man who kills the slave owner. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 infuriated abolitionists and Brown. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery north of 36 30’. It allowed the inhabitants of the states to determine whether the state would become free or slave. Many abolitionists came to Kansas to vote, and in response many pro-slavery candidates flocked to Kansas from Missouri. In 1854, many Missourians illegally voted in Kansas and were able to make it a slave state. Abolitionists were unhappy about this. In May of 1856, pro-slavery Kansans attacked an antislavery stronghold at Lawrence, Kansas. It seemed as if Kansas was going through a civil war. Disputes between abolitionist and pro-slavery citizens caused millions of dollars in property in damage that led to a paralyzed agriculture, and many dead in Kansas. Neither side was happy about the way Kansas had turned out. John Brown came to Kansas in 1855 to protest the Kansas-Nebraska Act. After Kansas became a slave state he knew there would be trouble between the two side. Soon after he heard about the attack at Lawrence he began to get ready to return the favor. On May 25, 1856 Brown along with several other men ambushed five people. This was a deliberate assassination of slave sympathizers. The five people were killed in retribution for the free-state men that had earlier been killed. The victims were taken out of their homes and brutally murdered. The bodies were hacked into small pieces with sabers and left to rot on the banks of the Pottawatomie Creek. Brown’s new nickname became, “Captain Brown”.When others heard of this murderous action some were repulsed while others were happy. Many claimed him insane and others called him a hero. This event became known a...
