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I grew up in Kansas. This is the shit that should be taught in the schools yet never is. Thank you for adding to my knowledge of just how fucked up people are. I'm currently appalled at the legislative push against the LGBTQ+ community and what is being done to women's rights to control their own bodies. Maybe if they taught more of this fucked up shit in school, we wouldn't be turning into the new nazi world headquarters!

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In The South, people argued that slavery was in the bible, so that made it okey-fuck-n-dokey. We need a John Brown today to get rid of MAGAts.

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God damn, if I had a teacher like this in High School I would have lived a very different life.

Bravo James!

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U.S. history not taught in school.

Thank you, @James Fell.

From Floriduh, the anti-education state, where they are attempting to erase it…..

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Being from WV, I wouldn’t mind you explaining it a little more about Harper’s Ferry!

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I wonder who Butler and Sumner counties are named after. Proslavery senators?

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WTG sir. I learned a little about the history you tell of so very well when I visited Harper’s Ferry some years ago. Our inalienable rights cost a lot of lives. Keep on… billserle.com.

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There are only four buildings that survive the fire during the Cantrell raid and raising of the town.

You neglected to mention that most of the slavery loving lowlife douche canoe just came across the border from Missouri. We’ve sucked for a long time.

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This is why your book was one of my grandchildren’s Christmas gifts. (They get quite a few) xxxxxx

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I grew up an hour from the John Brown Farm near Lake Placid, NY, where his family kept a farm in a community of free Black family farms, called Timbuktu. It's a park, museum, gravesite, and memorial now, and I *never knew this* from school. No field trip. Bleeding Kansas and Harper's Ferry were mentioned as lead-ups to the Civil War, but that was it.

Last summer, age 45, I learned about the farm and (living even closer now) took my family to the site. It was a very moving experience for me. If you're anywhere near, I recommend a visit.

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Born in Kansas, near where Paper Moon was filmed, though I was raised in Colorado, we have a family cemetery that dates back to the early 1800s. My grandparents left during the Depression, but faithfully returned. Tis' sad to see that it hasn't learned from its own history. For a State with a large population of individuals (German /Russian) who fled their own countries for a better life, as well as many Black who fled the South after the Civil War, you'd like to believe they were wiser to injustices currently underway.

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Speaking of Bleeding Kansas, I now live in one of the areas where the feared "Baldknobbers" and "Anti-Baldnobbers" (among other vigilante groups) held sway. They "enforced" whatever they felt like, usually under the cover of "enforcing morals," (sound familiar?), pro or anti colored people, slavery, etc.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Knobbers

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