Bleeding Kansas: Behind the Legend

I was born in KS..but,raised in CA. My great-granddad was in the Civil War,and left IL. and homesteaded in KS. so my blood runs deep in this state. Love it!

to think that that man was willing to kill his own people, and worse yet, put arms into the hands of slaves....what a fucking piece of shit. If John Brown were alive today, I'd execute him myself.

omg i so saw that painting in topeka, when i went on a class trip to the capitle building. two hours on a charter bus doing nothing....

u no wat wood b funny? if u put the song bleeding love in a video but changed the words so it wood b i keep bleedin i keep keep bleedin kansas! hahaha!

america rocks!!!!!!!!!!! but kansas sucks.

TX sucks.

Sorry... I went a little crazy with the comments.

Bleeding Kansas is not a myth. Bleeding Kansas claimed 200 lives in THE pre-civil war. Partisan Rangers, Red Legs, Abolitionists, Jay Hawkers, Bushwhackers, and opportunists participated in the the border wars/guerrilla warfare... Robbing, killing, raping, pillaging, raiding... Bleeding Kansas happened because of private interests in Westward Expansion with the Railroad, and political leverage of the CS vs US.

It's not "Free Staters," It's Free SOILERS. Kansas was a territory not a state until Lincoln became president and entered Kansas into the Union in 1861.

Actually, John Brown did represent a group of of Free STATERS... They were called Abolitionists. They were supplied with weapons and funds to antagonize and cross the Missouri border to capture slaves and harass slave owners. Whigs, Abolitionists, Know Nothings and the beginnings of what would be known of the party of Lincoln (The Republican Party.)