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John Brown (abolitionist)
John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
Clement Vallandigham
American lawyer and politician (1820–1871)

Pottawatomie Massacre
Violent Attack by Abolitionists prior to the American Civil War
Wakarusa War
1855 armed conflict in Kansas, United States
Secret Six
abolitionist group