LECOMPTON, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Historical Society says an acting troupe of history re-enactors plans to present the new play “John Brown: Widow Maker.”

The Lecompton Re-enactors plan to put on the new play about the fiery abolitionist at 2 p.m. May 3 at Constitution Hall State Historic Site. Amid fighting over whether the Kansas territory would enter the union as a free or slave state, Lecompton was the seat of government for several years.

The acting troupe will portray Mahala Doyle and Louisa Jane Wilkinson. Both women lost family during the “Pottawatomie Massacre” in which Brown oversaw the killing of five pro-slavery supporters in May of 1856 in retaliation for a Lawrence attack.

Brown and his second wife, Mary Brown, are also portrayed.