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Brosseau Center for Learning: Bleeding Kansas, Slavery, Abolition

Gallery 318, The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Selections for Rachel Schwaller’s HIST 348 History of the Peoples of Kansas and Laura Mielke’s ENGL 317 Slavery and Abolition in Literature

Works of art

Margaret Evelyn Whittemore (1897–1983), Statue of John Brown, Osawatomie

Chapman Family of Boston

Uncle Tom and Eva figure

John Steuart Curry (1897–1946); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), John Brown

Clarina Irene Howard Nichols (1810–1885), View of Early Lawrence, Kansas

Ethel Magafan (1916–1993), Lawrence Massacre, Mural design for Fort Scott Kansas

Ethel Magafan (1916–1993), Lawrence Massacre, Mural design for the Fort Scott Post Office

Kara Walker (born 1969); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Steve Campbell, The Beginning

Alexander Gardner (1821–1882), General Jim Lane's House, Lawrence, Kansas

Kara Walker (born 1969); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Steve Campbell, The Hunt

Kara Walker (born 1969); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Steve Campbell, The Chase

Kara Walker (born 1969); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Steve Campbell, The Plunge

Kara Walker (born 1969); Steve Campbell, The End

Joe Coleman (born 1955), The Ballad of Quantrill's Raiders

Tim O'Brien, The Day of Our Enslavement!!

Tim O'Brien, Anti-Slavery Mass Meeting!

Josiah Wedgwood I (1730–1795); Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. (founded 1759); William Hackwood (1757–1836), antislavery medallion

Josh MacPhee (born 1973); C & D Printshop, John Brown

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), For forty years John Brown reflected on the hopeless and miserable conditions of the slaves.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), John Brown, while tending his flock in Ohio, first communicated with his sons and daughters his plans of attacking slavery by force.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), John Brown formed an organization among the colored people of the Adirondack woods to resist the capture of any fugitive slaves.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), To the people he found worthy of trust, he communicated his plans.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), Kansas was now the skirmish ground of the Civil War.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), Those pro-slavery were murdered by those anti-slavery.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), John Brown’s victory at Black Jack drove those pro-slavery to new fury, and those who were anti-slavery to new efforts.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), John Brown, after long meditation, planned to fortify himself somewhere in the mountains of Virginia or Tennessee and there make raids on surrounding plantations, freeing slaves.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), John Brown made many trips to Canada organizing for his assault on Harper’s Ferry.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), John Brown remained a full winter in Canada, drilling negroes for his coming raid on Harper’s Ferry.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), John Brown held Harper’s Ferry for twelve hours. His defeat was a few hours off.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), After John Brown’s capture, he was put on trial for his life in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia).