As we commemorate the Civil War, all eyes should also look to Topeka, where, in 1855, Free State delegates assembled to draft a constitution that prohibited slavery in the Kansas Territory. John Brown, styled as the “liberator of Kansas,” led the charge, even marching slaves out of Pro-Slavery Missouri. This border war between Missouri and Kansas fanned the flames that led to America’s Civil War. “The story of John Brown, Bleeding Kansas and how crucial we were to the abolition
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