John Brown is starting an army, and he tells Frederic Douglas he's set on it. He believes slavery cannot be abolished without violence and his speech is very convincing.

One witness that day was John Wilkes Booth, who stood near the scaffold in a borrowed uniform. Booth held pro-slavery views, but he was impressed by Brown’s desire to change history through one ...

In December, 1858, John Brown led a few men across the Missouri border from Kansas and attacked two proslavery homesteads, confiscating property and liberating slaves. For Brown, the attack was ...

John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry ...

John Brown was an American abolitionist leader who fought for the equality of all races. He helped countless slaves reach freedom in his lifelong pursuit of equality but his use of violence as a ...

Brown’s Station was burnt to the ground. In September of 1856, a new territorial governor, John W. Geary, arrived in Kansas and began to restore order. The last major outbreak of violence was ...

As with everything John Brown did, he approached business with an unyielding insistence that his way was the right way. He was consumed by his work; he had no hobbies, no romance. He gave orders ...

John Brown is born in Torrington, Connecticut. His father, Owen, a strict Calvinist, hated slavery and believed that holding humans in bondage was a sin against God. 1812 The War of 1812 ...

John brown dedicated his life to the abolition of ... Proslavery forces had terrorized the region, using threats and violence to influence elections in an attempt to make Kansas a slave state.

12. Concord, Mass March 12, 1857 - John Brown speaks at the Town Hall. With Thoreau and Emerson listening, Brown says that he too hates violence, but accepts it as God’s will. April ...