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Chris Calton
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Season 2, Episode 8. In response to the Sack of Lawrence and the Caning of Charles Sumner, radical John Brown took matters into his own hands by murdering five pro-slavery settlers. With this, Brown ushered in the wave of violence Kansas would see in the summer of 1856. Chris Calton gives a revisionist look at the antebellum period leading up to