In retribution for the Sacking of Lawrence three days earlier, abolitionist John Brown, four of his sons, and other Free-Staters murdered five proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie, Kansas.
In retribution for the Sacking of Lawrence three days earlier, abolitionist John Brown, four of his sons, and other Free-Staters murder five proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek in southeast Franklin County.