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5/13/11 Kansas was called bleeding kansas in the 1850s because of all the violence going an there. everyine hated eachother and ended up slicing eachother up. 5/13/11 Kansas was called bleeding kansas in the 1850s because of all the violence going an there. everyine hated eachother and ended up slicing eachother up.

NOTES: The story of John Doy:
 * In 1859 Dr. John Doy, a free-state man, was arrested near Lawrence, and carried to St. Joseph, Mo., where he was tried upon the charge of abducting slaves from that state. : Did they have any proof?
 * John Doy was an abilitionist.
 * Convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. : did he have a family? and he must have been pissed if he was innocent?
 * Friends all knew that the charges were false, as he had not been in Missouri for some time prior to the escape of the slaves, and Maj. James B. Abbott organized a party of ten men to rescue the doctor from the jail at St. Joseph. The rescuing party consisted of James B. Abbott, Silas Soule, Joseph Gardiner, Charles Doy, two men named Lennox and Hayes, Thomas Simmons, Joshua A. Pike, John F. Stewart and S. J. Willis: so he was innocent ? why couldnt he just have had his friends testify for him? and where was he originally form if he was new to missouri?
 * Doy's friends had a plan to rescue doy from jail and everything went aa planned; doy was free and even thought they were followed by a group they managed.
 * This was regarded as one of the bravest and most daring exploits of the free-state men of the territory.

I think Doy and his friends are the good guys because they were only doing what was fair to them because they didnt get a fair trial.