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,…

An article written by Elisa De Togni on abolitionists’ reaction to John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry

Primary documents relating to John Brown's attack at Harper's Ferry and his subsequent arrest, trial, and execution. Page includes chronology, maps, images, trial transcrip, Brown's letters, Senate report, links, bibliography, and an original commentary on the significance of the trial.

John Brown (1800-1859), a white American abolitionist, was hanged for treason, murder and insurrection after his failed attempt to take over the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry to gain arms for a …

John Brown daguerreotype c1846-47.

Adam Gopnik on the radical nineteenth-century abolitionist who advocated for empathy, rather than patronizing sympathy, with the sufferings of black people, and believed in using violence to end slavery in the United States.

John Brown ... advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to abolish slavery in the United States. Executed in 1859, but his speeches at the trial captured national attention. Brown has been called "the most controversial of all 19th-century Americans" and "America's first domestic terrorist."

In many ways, John Brown’s Kansas of 150 years ago has not changed. Generally today’s issues are not as clearly divided between good and evil as slavery was. Today there are no convi…