The name of “Old Osawatomie Brown” conjures…

The name of “Old Osawatomie Brown” conjures up a fearful image among local slavery apologists after the Pottawatomie raid.

Periodic bloodshed along the border ensues as the two factions fight battles, capture towns, and set prisoners free.

Hundreds of such incidents earn the territory the name “Bleeding Kansas”.

A political struggle to determine the future state's position on slavery centers on the Lecompton Constitution proposed in 1857, in which men in favor of slavery meet in Lecompton to forge a constitution, a necessary prerequisite for statehood, The group's views are not representative of the Kansas populace.

The words of the so-called Lecompton Constitution cause additional bloodshed and compound the growing frustration between antislavery and proslavery elements.