John Brown (abolitionist)

John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist who played a major part in the history of slavery in the United States leading up to the American Civil War. Brown took part in the violence during the Bleeding Kansas crisis, but his most famous action was his leadership of the raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (in modern-day West Virginia). The killings that followed, Brown's subsequent capture by Robert E. Lee, his trial, and execution by hanging are generally considered an important part of the origins of the Civil War.

External links

• Debs, Eugene. John Brown: History?s Greatest Hero. Originally published in Appeal to Reason, November 23, 1907. Retrieved May 16, 2005.
• Homage to John Brown by George Novack.
• Johnson, Andrew. What John Brown Did in Kansas, a speech to the United States House of Representatives, December 12 1859. Originally published in The Congressional Globe, The Official Proceedings of Congress, Published by John C. Rives, Washington, D. C. Thirty-Sixth Congress, 1st Session, New Series...No. 7, Tuesday, December 13, 1859, pages 105-106. Retrieved May 16, 2005.
• Henry Clarke Wright. The Natick Resolution, or, Resistance to slaveholders the right and duty of southern slaves and northern freemen Published by author, Boston, 1859.