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345:. Jones had become sheriff under the auspices of a "bogus" pro-slavery government elected in opposition to a Free-State government simultaneously operating in Lawrence. Such dual governments had become widespread in Kansas in the preceding year as a result of political tensions surrounding the territory's anticipated statehood. Coleman argued that he had been acting in self-defense when he killed Dow, and simultaneously sought an arrest warrant for one of Dow's friends, a Free-Stater named Jacob Branson, who had witnessed the murder, apparently in an attempt to thwart Branson's threatened retaliation. When Jones investigated, he chose not to arrest Coleman for Dow's murder but instead arrested Branson on charges of 389: 330: 290: 450:
and his sons. After about a week, the Free-Staters eventually sent an emissary to Shannon, who was briefed in regards to the situation. The news distressed him, so he journeyed to Lawrence to see the situation for himself and was quite startled by what he saw. He immediately called representatives
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According to one contemporary account, Coleman was a former abolitionist who had only turned pro-slavery after moving to Kansas. His dispute with Dow intensified when he trespassed on Dow's property and Dow reproved him. Shortly after, Coleman and his friends met Dow at a local blacksmith's shop,
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While pro- and anti-slavery settlers had been antagonistic towards one another for some time, the genesis of the Wakarusa War in particular dates to November 21, 1855, when a pro-slavery settler named Franklin Coleman shot and kill a Free-Stater named
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from the Missouri army and Lawrence militia before him and urged them to sign a peace treaty. Such an agreement was finally made in December 1855 between Robinson and Lane (who represented the Free-Staters) and
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Aside from Dow, the Wakarusa War claimed only one other life: that of Free State settler and abolitionist Thomas Barber, who, on his way to the defense of Lawrence, had been shot by the
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and forced them to release Branson, challenging Jones' authority and causing the pro-slavery faction to seethe with anger. Within a matter of days, the governor of the Kansas Territory,
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during November and December 1855. It is often cited by historians as the first instance of violence during the "
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During the siege, the main body of the invaders were encamped near the small pro-slavery settlement
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and stolen guns, cutlasses, the "Old Sacramento Cannon" (which would later be used during the
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Indian Agent George W. Clarke during an ambush. Barber's death was memorialized in a poem by
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Hearing of the impending raid, the men of Lawrence raised up a militia of 800 men. Dr.
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was appointed as his second-in-command. Lawrence was also aided by the abolitionist
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where Coleman ultimately shot him. Dow's Free-Stater friends rallied in anger.
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The grave marker of abolitionist Thomas Barber in Pioneer Cemetery,
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Coleman fled, but he soon gave himself up to Douglas County Sheriff
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An 1868 illustration of the rescue of Jacob Branson
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Bleeding Kansas
Douglas County, Kansas
Free-State
abolitionists
Pro-slavery settlers
Charles L. Robinson
James Lane
John Brown
Samuel J. Jones
David Rice Atchison
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Bleeding Kansas
1855 elections
Wakarusa War
Lawrence
Pottawatomie
Spurs
Black Jack
Franklin
Fort Titus
Osawatomie
Marais des Cygnes
Kansas Territory
Bleeding Kansas
Douglas County
Wakarusa River
Lawrence
Wilson Shannon

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