Massachusetts Arms Belt Revolver
name: label: licensee
content: Leavitt
label: licensee
content: Wesson
label: associated person
content: Brown, John
label: maker
content: Massachusetts Arms Company
notes: label: Description
content: United States "Belt Revolver" .31 caliber with Maynard primer.
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Chicopee
label: used
content: United States: Kansas
label: used
content: United States: Nebraska
topic: label: Subject
content: Firearms
label: related event
content: Kansas Struggle
label: related event
content: Expansion and Reform
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: ThinkFinity
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Allen H. Johness, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0723.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0723
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0723.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: revolver
label: Other Terms
content: revolver; Firearms; Tape Prime; .31 In; Rifled; Sa
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 12 in x 1 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 30.48 cm x 3.81 cm