History of the United States I / Unit 14 USH1 1988 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Sacking of Lawrence
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The idea
On May twenty-first, eighteen fifty-six, Sheriff Samuel Jones falsely claimed court authority and led an armed posse into the town of Lawrence.
In practice
Banners reading Southern rights and the Superiority of the White Race, with five artillery pieces.
Where people slip
They destroyed the presses of the Herald of Freedom and the Kansas Free State and burned the deserted Free State Hotel. No resident was harmed.
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