Bleeding Kansas

<p><span class="deck">Senator Douglas’ act is verified, at last, by first-hand testimony</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When mudslinging in Congress led to actual bloodshed</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Two hundred years after his birth, Americans still revere him as a martyr and loathe him as a fanatical murderer. What was he?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Without the material support of a half-dozen prominent northerners known as the Secret Six, John Brown’s attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry 150 years ago may well have never occurred.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Tempers flare and violence reigns in the pre–Civil War battleground of Kansas.</span></p>