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adopted a pro-slavery constitution overnight.
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And free soilers cried foul,
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formed their own attempt at a government that summer.
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And by january of 1856, the beginning of the next year,
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In a sense, in essence,
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there were two fledgling territorial governments in kansas,
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one free soil, one pro-slavery.
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And it was then-- that spring of 1856--
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That what we call bleeding kansas,
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this border frontier, civil war, this village against village,
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river ravine against river ravine, broke out.
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Before it played out over about a year and a half