John Brown | Biography, Harpers Ferry, & Pottawatomie …

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How did John Brown become famous? Long before the Harpers Ferry Raid , John Brown earned a measure of fame as the leader of antislavery guerrillas in Bleeding Kansas , the small civil war fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the …

John Brown: Abolitionist, Raid & Harpers Ferry - HISTORY

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John Brown was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement in the pre-Civil War United States. Unlike many anti-slavery activists, he was not a pacifist and believed in aggressive action...

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Militant American abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia), in 1859 that he hoped would spark a slave rebellion. It …

John Brown - Raid, Significance & History - Biography

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From childhood on, abolitionist John Brown (in a c.1847 daguerreotype taken by Augustus Washington) had sworn "eternal war with slavery." National Portrait Gallery Perhaps more than any other...

How did John Brown become famous? | Britannica

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Long before the Harpers Ferry Raid, John Brown earned a measure of fame as the leader of antislavery guerrillas in Bleeding Kansas, the small civil war fought between proslavery …

John Brown's last speech - Wikipedia

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John Brown, Abolitionist. The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. Vintage Books. pp. 353–357.

John Brown's Raid - National Park Service

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Preparing for War. On July 3, 1859, Brown arrived in Harpers Ferry, accompanied by his sons, Oliver and Owen, and Jeremiah Anderson. In the preceding months, he had raised money from other abolitionists and …

John Brown (abolitionist) Biography - Facts, Childhood, …

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John Brown was a noted American radical abolitionist who detested slavery and believed that the only way to get rid of it was armed insurgency. This is contrary to the belief of the Northerners who were proponents of …