Unlike most other Northerners, who still advocated peaceful resistance to the pro-slavery faction, Brown demanded violent action in response to Southern aggression.

Jim Lane was a main free-state leader, and Lecompton was previously the capital of the opposing pro-slavery faction.

The convention was marred by violence by pro-slavery factions.

Violence by pro-slavery factions marred the gathering, but the fracas enabled the three brothers to fully convert their parents to the abolitionist cause.

There was agitation by pro-slavery factions to allow slavery.

As the years progressed Haïti only became a bigger target for scorn amongst the pro-slavery factions in the south.

The effect of these actions, was to cut the pro-slavery faction remaining in the Indiana Territory in half.

Each new territory was to decide the fate of slavery within its boundaries, but this compromise merely served to fuel animosity between free soil and pro-slavery factions.

Through the machinery of the territory and violence, the pro-slavery faction attempted to force an unpopular pro-slavery constitution through the state.

In this bid, he was supported by pro-slavery factions led by Joseph Lane.