Massachusetts Arms Belt Revolver
Massachusetts Arms Belt Revolver
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- Description
- United States "Belt Revolver".31 caliber with Maynard primer.
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed the two states to decide the issue of slavery by a popular ballot. The fight in Kansas was so intense that the state earned the nickname “Bleeding Kansas.” John Brown bought 2,000 of these revolvers and sent them to Kansas for the “Free-Soilers.” New England abolitionists helped bankroll “Free-Soilers” to move to the settlement of Lawrence, Kansas. In 1856, after abolitionists were attacked in Lawrence, John Brown led a raid on scattered cabins along the Pottawatomie Creek, killing five people. Kansas would not become a state until 1861, after the Confederate states seceded.
- Object Name
- revolver
- Other Terms
- revolver; Firearms; Tape Prime;.31 In; Rifled; Sa
- licensee
- Leavitt
- Wesson
- associated person
- Brown, John
- maker
- Massachusetts Arms Company
- Place Made
- United States: Massachusetts, Chicopee
- used
- United States: Kansas
- United States: Nebraska
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- wood (part material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 1/2 in x 12 in x 1 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 30.48 cm x 3.81 cm
- ID Number
- 1982.0723.01
- accession number
- 1982.0723
- catalog number
- 1982.0723.01
- Credit Line
- Allen H. Johness, Jr.
- subject
- Firearms
- Kansas Struggle
- Expansion and Reform
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- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
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- Exhibition
- Price of Freedom
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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