wrence which caused a great deal of damage to the city as well as causing the loss of many innocent lives. Brown immediately decided to retaliate against this act. Thus, on the night of May 23, 1856, he and his followers committed a series of cold-blooded murders which increased his reputation throughout America. With six followers, including four of his sons, Brown "visited the homes of pro-slavery men along Pottawatomie Creek, dragged their unarmed inhabitants in the night, and hacked them to death with long-edged swords" (p. 83). Fi
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