John Brown (1800-1859) has been revered for generations as a martyr to the American antislavery cause. His attack on Harpers Ferry, Va., just before the Civil War freed no slaves and resulted in his own trial and death. John Brown was born at...

Born 1800 Torrington, Connecticut Died December 2, 1859 Charlestown, Virginia Radical abolitionist Led an unsuccessful attempt to ignite a slave uprising in the South in...

John Brown Born May 9, 1800 Torrington, Connecticut Died December 2, 1859 Charlestown, Virginia Abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor, and revolutionary In October, 1859, John Brown led twenty-one men in a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers...

United States 1859 On Sunday evening, 16 October 1859, the abolitionist John Brown and a band of supporters raided the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's purpose was to strike a decisive blow against slavery and to embolden slaves...

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In a fairly well-written, fast-paced book, Otto Scott immediately establishes himself as the debunker of the abolitionist hero myth. Now in its third printing, The Secret Six asserts that John Brown and six privileged and mostly wealthy men -- George Luther Stearns, Franklin...

Boulware, Dorothy S. Baltimore Afro-American 12-01-2000 Abolitionist John Brown was considered by many to be a madman: Day scheduled to remember John Brown It was during the memorial service for an antislavery newspaper publisher, shot to death by a proslavery mob, that...

BP PLC's Chief Executive John Browne resigned Tuesday, hours after a judge allowed a newspaper to publish allegations from a former boyfriend that the executive misused company resources.Browne, who had already moved up his departure by more than a year after a deadly refinery blast...

A rare daguerreotype of abolitionist John Brown was bought Friday by an unidentified bidder for $97,750, an auctioneer said.The buyer, who bid by telephone, declined to be identified or to talk about the purchase, auctioneer Wes Cowan said.Cowan, an occasional appraiser on the PBS show...

The popular view of John Brown is that he was a crazy man who killed five pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie. What one never reads in the history books is that John Brown was a true abolitionist who not only spoke out against the immorality of slavery, but also believed (unlike Abraham Lincoln) that African Americans were equal to whites in every way.

An opinionated look at the abolitionist John Brown, based on the reading of Clinton Cox's biography Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown.

Discusses John Brown's role in American history, specifically The Pottawatomie Massacre. Analyzes whether Brown was a ruthless murderer or a martyr for his role in the incident.