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	John Brown (abolitionist) at AllExperts
		John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist, the first white abolitionist to advocate and to practice guerrilla warfare as a means to the abolition of slavery.
		Brown's subsequent capture by federal forces commanded by Robert E. Lee, his trial for treason to the state of Virginia, and his execution by hanging were an important part of the origins of the American Civil War, which followed sixteen months later.
		John Brown is buried on the John Brown Farm in North Elba, New York, south of Lake Placid, near Saranac Lake.
	en.allexperts.com /e/j/jo/john_brown_(abolitionist).htm (6058 words)

	John Brown - MSN Encarta
		John Brown (abolitionist) (1800-1859), called Old Brown of Osawatomie, American abolitionist, whose attempt to end slavery by force greatly increased tension between North and South in the period before the American Civil War.
		Under Brown's leadership, his sons became active participants in the fight against proslavery terrorists from Missouri, whose activities led to the murder of a number of abolitionists at Lawrence, Kansas.
		Ten of Brown's men, including two of his sons, were killed in the ensuing battle, and he was wounded and forced to capitulate.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568872/Brown_John_(abolitionist).html (533 words)

	John Brown
		John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery.
		John Brown was born into a deeply religious family in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800.
		Brown was wounded and quickly captured, and moved to Charlestown, Virginia, where he was tried and convicted of treason, Before hearing his sentence, Brown was allowed make an address to the court.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html (640 words)

	The History of John Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		John Brown was born on May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut.
		John Brown soon realized the impossibility of his task and abandoned "Timbucto" to follow the abolitionist movement in Kansas where five of his sons were already stationed.
		After John Brown was hung in Charleston on Dec.2, 1859, his body was returned to the Adirondacks to be interred on the Brown farm according to his wishes.
	afgen.com /john_brown1.html (427 words)

	John Brown the Abolitionist
		John Brown himself wielded no sword (he did fire one final shot into the head of a dead man, probably as a signal to gather his men), but there is no doubt that he directed the killings.
		Brown had long pondered and planned some kind of invasion into the South, and Reynolds effectively reconstructs the developments that culminated in his assault upon the small town of Harper’s Ferry, which he recognized as being strategically situated at the doorstep of the South.
		John Brown, Abolitionist is an eloquently written compromise, and despite the fact that the trade press has portrayed it as something of a cultural revelation, it is only a retooling of a 20th century paradigm.
	abolitionist-john-brown.blogspot.com /2006/06/john-brown-in-black-and-white.html (3617 words)

	John Brown: Madman or Martyr? -- Brown Quarterly -- v. 3, no. 3 -- Winter 2000
		Abolitionist societies from the free states encouraged abolitionists to move to Kansas and settle so that they could vote for Kansas to be a free state.
		While John Brown himself was an ardent abolitionist all of his life, active in both the underground railway and other abolitionist activities, he didn't become well known nationally until he moved to Kansas in 1855.
		On the night of May 24, 1856, John Brown together with a small group of armed men, made up mostly of his sons and son-in-law, took five pro-slavery men from their houses and killed them in what is known as the Pottawatomie Massacre.
	brownvboard.org /brwnqurt/03-3/03-3a.htm (1555 words)

	John Brown Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		John Brown was born at Torrington, Conn., on May 4, 1800, to Owen Brown, a tanner, and Ruth Mills Brown, whose family had a history of mental instability.
		Brown spent the summer of 1856 collecting money for Kansas in New England, where prominent public figures, some not wholly aware of the details of his Kansas activities, were impressed by his dedication to the abolitionist cause.
		Brown was now considered a criminal in the eyes of Missouri and the U.S. government, and both offered rewards for his capture; still he was hailed in parts of the North as a liberator, and donations poured in.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-brown (1134 words)

	John Brown and Son
		Owen Brown was born at Hudson, Ohio, November 4, 1824, and was the third son of John Brown's first family, there being twenty children in all.
		This was a marvelous event in which John Brown, with $2,000.00 reward offered for him, dead or alive, took a lot of slaves in a car on the C.R.I. and P. Railroad to the cities of Davenport, La Salle, Joliet, Chicago and on to freedom on the soil of Canada.
		William H. Coffin, was associated with John Brown and his sons in the Kansas Struggle for a free state against the slave-hunting Border Ruffians, in 1856-7-8-9.
	kinnexions.com /album/kinnorth/brownj.htm (1540 words)

	The Underground Railroad Site - John Brown
		John Brown was an American abolitionist, born in Connecticut and raised in Ohio.
		Brown planned the takeover as the first step in his liberation of the slaves, but it was taken the next morning by Robert E. Lee.
		At the end of Book One, John Brown appears in court, on trial for the crime of treason - "an enemy of Virginia, an enemy of the Union, a foe of the human race." In this excerpt, Benét reprints Brown's speech to the court.
	education.ucdavis.edu /NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/Brown.htm (190 words)

	John Brown, Abolitionist (washingtonpost.com)
		Stearns called the affair "the John Brown Party." The highlight of the evening was the unveiling of a marble bust of John Brown, the antislavery martyr who had died on a scaffold three years earlier after his doomed, heroic effort to free the slaves by leading a twenty-two-man raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
		Perhaps the most significant meaning of the John Brown Party was that everyone present was joined by an idealistic vision of a man who, in other circles, was branded as a murderer, a thief, and an insane fanatic.
		Brown himself had misread the slaves and sympathetic whites among the locals, whom he expected to rally in masses to his side as soon as his raid on Harpers Ferry began.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/johnbrownabolitionist.htm (1732 words)

	Book Reviews - John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds
		John Brown is a historical figure whose legacy finds him to be a combination of zealot, abolitionist, lunatic, and a man eager to use violence as an end to his means.
		John Brown was so convinced of the moral superiority of the cause that he believed that slavery could only be "purged away with blood." He and his sons killed men in Kansas in fights against pro-slavery forces.
		John Brown is most often seen either as a hero for freedom or a terrorist who used violence to to further his religious zealotry.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /john_brown (252 words)

	JOHN BROWN-RADICAL ABOLITIONIST
		John Brown will be the focus of the Program, but the attitudes demonstrated by those who supported or hated John Brown will highlight the issues of the day.
		John Brown was capture by Colonel Robert E. Lee of the United States Army, but was executed for treason by the State of Virginia.
		Facts Pertaining to Character: John Brown was born in 1800 and raised in Connecticut by a father who was a strong abolitionist.
	ourworld.cs.com /mralleeshistory/myhomepage/faith.html (729 words)

	John Brown Biography Page
		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.
		By the time he was 50, Brown was entranced by visions of slave uprisings, during which racists paid horribly for their sins, and he came to regard himself as commissioned by God to make that vision a reality.
	www.civilwarhome.com /johnbrownbio.htm (556 words)

	John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid
		John Brown was born in Connecticut in 1800 and became interested in the abolitionist movement around 1835.
		John Brown, still recovering from a sword wound, stood trial at the Jefferson County Courthouse on October 26.
		John Brown became their martyr, a hero murdered for his belief that slavery should be abolished.
	www.wvculture.org /History/jnobrown.html (1089 words)

	African American Registry: John Brown, abolitionist who sacrificed his life. .
		He was an American abolitionist, whose attempt to end slavery by force greatly increased anxiety between North and South in the period before the American Civil War.
		Under Brown's leadership, his sons became active participants in the fight against pro slavery terrorists from Missouri, whose activities led to the murder of a number of abolitionists at Lawrence, Kansas.
		Brown and his sons avenged this crime, on May 24, 1856, at Pottawatomie Creek by killing five pro slavery adherents.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/184/John_Brown_abolitionist__who_sacrificed_his_life (490 words)

	John Brown - American Abolitionist
		The American abolitionist John Brown is remembered especially for his raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859.
		Brown envisioned emancipation by massive slave insurrection, but he did not pursue that goal until the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry.
		Ten of Brown's army died in the ensuing battle, and Brown himself was wounded.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/civwar/brown.html (617 words)

	The Life and Trial of John Brown: A Commentary
		Brown became the patriarch of a family that was large, familiar with tragedy, committed to abolitionism, and almost unique in its willingness to "live with fl people and to die for them." Over two decades, Brown fathered twenty children with two wives.
		Brown's parenting included tough discipline (his ledger, for example, specified eight lashes with a beech switch "for telling a lie"--but Brown sometimes asked his sons to administer most of the punishment on himself), and promotion of self-reliance and Christian values including, especially, compassion for the elderly, the unfortunate, and animals.
		Around 11 o'clock Brown, with his arms tied behind his back with rope and wearing a fl coat and trousers, white socks, and red slippers, was led from his prison cell to a furniture wagon.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/brownaccount.html (5398 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds
		For John Brown, in contrast, Abolitionism was not something learned or arrived at; rather, it was in his blood, as was his openness to people of different ethnicities.
		Brown, disappointed by the lackluster response of the unprepared fls, stalled fatally at Harpers Ferry instead of quickly escaping to the mountains as he had planned.
		Brown was aware of all these social wrongs, but he took up arms only against one: slavery, the most self-evidently evil social institution in American history, one that in Brown’s day seemed cemented in place by law and custom.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375726156&view=auqa (2989 words)

	Genealogy of (Abolitionist) John Brown's Relatives
		John and Elizabeth (Loomis) Brown's son John was born in 1700, and he later married Mary Eggleston.
		John and Mary (Eggleston) Brown's son John was born in 1728, and he later married Hannah Owens.
		John was born to Owen and Ruth in 1800.
	www.kancoll.org /articles/browns.htm (834 words)

	John Brown - Moviefone
		John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of...
		John Brown was born into a deeply religious family in Torrington,...
		His son, Owen Brown, the father of abolitionist John Brown, was a tanner and...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/john-brown/82642/main (119 words)

	Putting John Brown in a cultural perspective - The Boston Globe
		It is in Brown's relationship with those he would liberate that Reynolds most firmly establishes Brown's place in American culture.
		Among the antislavery leaders, Reynolds writes, Brown ''was the only one to model both his lifestyle and his plans for abolishing slavery on fl culture." Brown, he notes, ''[laid] out his plan [for the raid] mainly to fls" and there were five fl ''soldiers" in his small force.
		''John Brown's Body" was written at the start of the war using a tune from Methodist revivals.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/05/10/putting_john_brown_in_a_cultural_perspective (609 words)

	John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist, the first white abolitionist to advocate and to practice insurrection as a means to the abolition of slavery.
		Brown's father became a supporter of the Oberlin Institute in its early stage, although he was ultimately critical of the school's "Perfectionist" leanings, especially renowned in the preaching and teaching of Finney and Mahan.
		Brown was particularly affected by the Sacking of Lawrence in May 1856, in which a sheriff-led posse destroyed newspaper offices and a hotel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist) (6616 words)

	John Brown - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Brown, John (abolitionist) (1800-1859), called Old Brown of Osawatomie, American abolitionist, whose attempt to end slavery by force greatly...
		John Brown University, private, coeducational institution in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, 90 km (56 mi) north of Fort Smith.
		Although overshadowed by political developments, abolitionists remained active.
	encarta.msn.com /John_Brown.html (117 words)

	John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds: Reviews
		19th century historical figure John Brown could be described as any one of those things, and Reynolds' biography attempts an in-depth and balanced look at Brown's lifelong and often violent attempt to abolish slavery in the United States.
		And the author succeeds admirably in showing that Brown, far from being a crazed fanatic, was a serious legatee of the English and American revolutions who anticipated the Emancipation Proclamation and all that has ensued from it.
		Reynolds' account of Brown and his turbulent times is a deep and steady look at an era that, in some respects, resembles our own.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/reynoldsdavids/johnbrownabolitionist (670 words)

	Oberlin College Archives \| Exhibits \| John Brown Bicentennial \| Title
		The Bicentennial of the Birth of John Brown (1800-1859)
		John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut on May 9, 1800, the son of Owen and Ruth Brown.
		During 1840 and 1841 John Brown failed in an attempt to negotiate with the Oberlin Collegiate Institute to settle his family on land known as the Gerrit Smith-Oberlin Virginia lands.
	www.oberlin.edu /archive/exhibits/john_brown/index.html (339 words)

	The Family of John Brown, Abolitionist
		"It may not be generally known that the widow of John Brown is a resident of Humboldt County living with her son Salmon and her daughters Sarah and Ellen.
		One of the most controversial figures in American history, John Brown remains an enigma almost 120 years after his attempt to capture the federal complex at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
		Salmon Brown, of Rohnerville, is turning his attention to the introduction of fine blooded sheep into Humboldt County.
	www.sunnyfortuna.com /history/rohnerville/browns.htm (621 words)

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