John Paul Brown in Kansas

Intro.: "A Moment in Time" with Dan Roberts.

Content: In 1856 settlers were pouring into Kansas from North and South. At first, the pro-slavery Southerners, mostly from nearby Missouri were in the majority. Gradually, free-soil advocates began to arrive in larger numbers. Congress had decreed that a vote by a majority of settlers could determine whether the territory would become a free or slave state. Whoever got there first with the most determined the outcome.