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Bleeding Kansas | The Pottawatomie Massacre  | 2 by Wondery

Bleeding Kansas | The Pottawatomie Massacre | 2

from American History Tellers

by Wondery

Published: Wed Apr 21 2021

Show Notes

On the night of May 24th, 1856,radical abolitionist John Brown and seven of his followers crept along the banks of Kansas’s Pottawatomie Creek and stormed a proslavery settlement. They dragged five men from their cabins and killed them in cold blood. 

Soon, Brown’s name was splashed across the nation’s newspapers, making him a lightning rod for controversy. He would exploit his notoriety to escalate his crusade against slavery, taking his guerrilla war to a new theater: the slaveholding South.

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