1800-1859 U.S. abolitionist. Convicted of treason after a failed attempt to launch a slave rebellion, he was hanged in Virginia.The song “John Brown's Body” commemorates his actions.
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to abolish all slavery.
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 ...
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