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John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War.First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
Many of John Brown's homes are today small museums. John Brown is featured in an extremely large mural (11'6" tall and 31' long) [120] painted in the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka, Kansas. In "Tragic Prelude", by Kansan John Steuart Curry, the larger-than-life figure of John Brown dominates a scene of war, death, and destruction. Wildfires and ...
John Brown is a biography written by W. E. B. Du Bois about the abolitionist John Brown.Published in 1909, it tells the story of John Brown, from his Christian rural upbringing, to his failed business ventures and finally his "blood feud" with the institution of slavery as a whole.
Virginia v. John Brown was a criminal trial held in Charles Town, Virginia, in October 1859.The abolitionist John Brown was quickly prosecuted for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, murder, and inciting a slave insurrection, all part of his raid on the United States federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
The seven survivors, including John Brown himself, were quickly tried for treason, murder, and inciting a slave revolt, and were convicted and executed by hanging, in the Jefferson County seat of Charles Town. John Brown was the first person executed for treason in the history of the United States.
John Brown (fugitive slave) (c. 1810–1876), American author of Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings and Escape of John Brown; John Brown (servant) (1826–1883), Scottish servant and close friend of Queen Victoria; John Ednie Brown (1848–1899), Scottish author on sylviculture and state conservator of forests
John Brown Jr. (July 25, 1821 – May 3, 1895) was an American farmer and soldier who was the eldest son of the abolitionist John Brown. Although he did not participate in his father's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia , he served as his intelligence agent and liaison.
"A Plea for Captain John Brown" is an essay by Henry David Thoreau, based on a speech he first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts, on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859.