![]() ![]() Slavery proponents next pulled 11 antislavery settlers from their homes and shot them down.īleeding Kansas is, per its name, most famous for the bloodshed. ![]() Abolitionists then drove proslavery forces out of Linn County. Hundreds of slavery supporters retaliated by attacking an antislavery settlement in the town of Osawatomie, murdering several locals and burning most of the village to the ground. ![]() In response, a group of abolitionists led by John Brown killed five proslavery settlers in Franklin County. On May 21, 1856, 800 slavery supporters sacked the city of Lawrence-home to the state’s antislavery leaders-looting houses and murdering one resident. Both proslavery and antislavery activists formed militias, and it wasn’t long before violence began to erupt. News of the murder, arrest, and jailbreak spread rapidly across Kansas. They intercepted the sheriff at gunpoint and liberated his prisoner. Local abolitionists, many of whom were already furious about the murder, grew incensed. That sheriff promptly freed him and then arrested Branson. As the friend walked away, Coleman took out a gun and killed him.įearing reprisal in what was a largely antislavery community, Coleman fled to a nearby town and turned himself in to a proslavery sheriff. It’s not clear what, if anything, Coleman said in response. The friend berated Coleman for continuing to squat on the land and demanded that he desist. Roughly a year later, Coleman ran into a friend of Branson’s at a local blacksmith’s shop. In late 1854, Jacob Branson, an abolitionist from Ohio, started trying to kick Franklin Coleman, a slavery proponent, off his property. Bleeding Kansas began with an eviction attempt. ![]()
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