Charles Manson sure got a lot of people to do his dirty work. Bleeding Kansas and the warfare that happened there was not such a simple thing and I can see where Brown was coming from in taking it to the slavery activists.
both groups preyed on slave owners/non-slave owners/Missourians/Kansans/AmerIndians/slaves/freemen with equal fury.
those groups were mostly about MONEY & the LUST for MORE MONEY. (it was "war for fun & profit".)
to quote George M. Clide, a "lieutenant" of the "redlegs" : "If there was NO convenient reb farm nearby,we raided whichever place was closest. didn't make no nevermind to usins"
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