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Sacking of Lawrence
The Sacking of Lawrence occurred on May 21, 1856, when pro-slavery activists attacked and ransacked the town of Lawrence, Kansas, which had been founded by anti-slavery settlers to help ensure that Kansas would become a "free state". The incident made worse the guerrilla war in Kansas Territory that became known as Bleeding Kansas.
==Background==
Lawrence was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery settlers, many with the financial support of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. The town soon became the center of pro-slavery violence in Kansas Territory. While the village had been besieged in December 1855, it was not directly attacked at that time. The non-fatal shooting of Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones on April 23, 1856, while he was attempting to arrest free-state settlers in Lawrence, is considered the immediate cause of the violence.〔Durwood Ball, ''Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001), 174〕 Lawrence residents drove Jones out of town after they shot him, and on May 11, Federal Marshal J. B. Donaldson proclaimed the act had interfered with the execution of warrants against the extralegal Free-State legislature, which was set up in opposition to the official pro-slavery territorial government.〔 Based on this proclamation, as well the finding by a grand jury that Lawrence's Free State Hotel was actually built to use as a fort, Sheriff Jones assembled a posse of about 800 southernern settler to enter Lawrence, disarm the citizens, destroy the anti-slavery presses, and dismantle the Free State Hotel.〔Durwood Ball, ''Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001), 175〕〔Jay Monaghan, ''Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865'' (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984), 57〕
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