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Here’s Where Some Say the American Civil War Really Started

Sunday, August 31 2008 10:08

Kansas, Bloody Kansas. Men murdered in cold blood, others wounded or beaten, a town sacked, buildings burned, homes looted, women robbed - and all of this even before the American Civil War began.

For seven years, from 1854 until 1861, pro-slavery, anti-slavery and free-state advocates in Territorial Kansas battled each other in words, politics and violence.

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Here’s Where Some Say the American Civil War Really Started

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