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John Brown led a righteous crusade against slavery, born of religious conviction -- and carried out with shocking violence. ... ; The Film & More | Special Features | Timeline | Maps | People & Events | Teacher's Guide; New content © 1999 PBS/WGBH. Visit Your Local PBS Station PBS Home PBS Home Programs A-Z TV...
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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, Virginia. ... John Brown was born into a deeply religious family in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. Led by a father who was...
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Born in Torrington, Connecticut on May 9, 1800, John Brown was the son of a wandering New Englander. Brown spent much of his youth in Ohio, where he was taught in local schools to resent compulsory education and by his parents to revere the Bible and hate slavery.
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www.civilwarhome.com/johnbrownbio.htm
www.civilwarhome.com/johnbrownbio.htm
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In the winter of 1857-58, John Brown, who had been a leader in and a promoter of lawlessness during the troubles in Kansas--undertaken, as he himself confessed, for the purpose of inflaming the public mind on the subject of slavery, that he might perfect organizations to bring about servile insurrections in...
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www.civilwarhome.com/johnbrown.htm
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Welcome toThe Kennedy Farmhouse Abolitionist John Brown's staging area for raid on Harpers Ferry ... click the photo to see ghost hunters film...
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John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist, and folk hero who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre ...
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John Brown was an American abolitionist, born in Connecticut and raised in Ohio. He felt passionately and violently that he must personally fight to end slavery. In 1856, in retaliation for the sack of Lawrence, he led the murder of five proslavery men on the banks of the Pottawatomie River.
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