Kansas? Isn’t that where one of America’s first home grown terrorists - John Brown hailed?
No, he wasn't from there, but that's where he did some of his definitive work.
John Brown came out of upstate New York’s ‘burned over district’. The spawning ground for religious zealots of all sorts. It was the California of its time.
An excellent book on John Brown and the people who financed his terrorism is Otto Scott’s “The Secret Six”.
He actually hailed from Connecticut and spent only about a year in Kansas. He certainly did contribute to the border violence while he was here though.
One question I have about Brown. He was born in Connecticut and lived in New York and Pennsylvania and Ohio and Kansas. Yet he was convicted and executed for treason against Virginia. How could he commit treason against a state he wasn't born in, had never lived in, and had never even set foot in until his criminal actions at Harper's Ferry?