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Monday, June 07, 2010 9:25 PM

Photo by Elliot J. Sutherland/The Ottawa Herald

Bringing back Black Jack

Spectators line up Saturday as a reenactor portrays John Brown, a renowned Kansas abolitionist, during a reenactment of the Battle of Black Jack at Black Jack Battlefield and Nature Park near Baldwin City. The battle was fought in 1856 between abolitionist forces led by Brown and a pro-slavery militia led by Henry Clay Pate. The battle, involving nearly 100 men, has been called one of the first of the Civil War.

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