what is the pottwatomie massacre??

Question

i'm confused on what exactly it is... help please?? thanks!!

Answer 1

The Pottawatomie Massacre happened on the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25, 1856. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence (Kansas) by pro-slavery forces, John Brown and a band of abolitionist (some of them members of the Pottawatomie Rifles) killed five pro-slavery settlers N of Pottawatomie Creek (Franklin County, KS).

Answer 2

yep; first time John Brown's name came to national attention but not the last......see "Harper's Ferry" and the following tune; (Julia Ward Howe later re-wrote it as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic")


Old John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave,
While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save;
But though he lost his life in struggling for the slave,
His truth is marching on.

Chorus:
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on!

John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true and brave;
Kansas knew his valor when he fought her rights to save;
And now though the grass grows green above his grave,
His truth is marching on.
Chorus

He captured Harpers Ferry with his nineteen men so few,
And he frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled through and through,
They hung him for a traitor, themselves a traitor crew,
But his truth is marching on.
Chorus

John Brown was John the Baptist for the Christ we are to see,
Christ who of the bondsman shall the Liberator be;
And soon throughout the sunny South the slaves shall all be free.
For his truth is marching on.
Chorus