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A whole lot of ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most significant men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. Through the entire 1850s, American politicians tried out to straighten out the country's intractable issues. So that they can organize the guts of North America - Kansas and Nebraska - without offsetting the slave-free balance, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Take action. The Kansas-Nebraska Take action eradicated the Missouri Bargain line of 1820, which the Bargain of 1850 experienced taken care of. Settlers could now vote whether they wanted their state to be slave-free. The principal end result was that thousands of zealous pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates transferred to Kansas to impact the vote, making a dangerous and ultimately deadly mix. The most well-known and infamous of them all was John Brown, one of the most questionable men in American record. A radical abolitionist, Brown organized a small music group of like-minded fans and fought with the armed sets of pro-slavery men in Kansas for many weeks, including a notorious incident known as the Pottawatomie Massacre, in which Brown's followers murdered five men. "I, John Brown, am now quite sure that the crimes of this guilty land won't be purged away but with bloodstream. I had, when i now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done." - John Brown your day of his execution This audiobook includes Brown's jailhouse interview and courtroom affirmation after being convicted and sentenced to loss of life. It also talks about the relationships Brown experienced with famous contemporaries like Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
