John brown

Abolitionist John Brown leads 18 men in an attack on the Harpers Ferry armory. The raid to seize the weapons failed and Brown was captured, tried, and hung. At his trial, Brown said: “Now,…

Bleeding Kansas

John Brown, militant American abolitionist and veteran of Bleeding Kansas whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 and subsequent execution made him an antislavery martyr and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War.

John Brown was an abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.

Augustus Washington, American (1820-1875) 'John Brown' c. 1846-1847

Classic Crime With The Brits. No 21 The Father Brown Stories were written by G K Chesterton. Father John Brown was a Roman Catholic priest from East Anglia who...

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He better grow a beard.

The Showtime mini-series is the latest work to take up the question of whether the 19th-century abolitionist was a martyr or a madman. The answers tend to break along racial lines.

An abolitionist raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in an attempt to start an armed revolt against the institution of slavery.

Adam Gopnik on the radical nineteenth-century abolitionist John Brown’s centrality to the Civil War.

John Brown. John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harpers Ferry; in many books the town is called "Harper's Ferry" with an apostrophe-s, was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accompanied by 20 men in his party, was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee.

Film clip. Voices of a People's History. Dramatic reading by David Strathairn of John Brown’s last speech delivered on November 2, 1859.

Osawatamie John Brown

Painting of John Brown by Quartus Ruggles in 1882.

To my knowledge, there are three statues of John Brown in the United States (not counting smaller statuary, like busts and smaller pieces): First, and perhaps the most well known, is the statue of John Brown and a young black boy, situated at the John Brown Farm (a NY State Historical site) near Lake Placid, NY. It was sculpted by Joseph Pollia and unveiled in 1935. Pollia shows Brown walking with a young black youth, which some--both mildly and critically--have taken as a paternalistic…

John Brown, a fanatical abolitionist, led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and moved the U.S. closer to Civil War.