John Brown (abolitionist)

John Brown 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.

American lawyer and politician (1820–1871)

Violent Attack by Abolitionists prior to the American Civil War

1855 armed conflict in Kansas, United States

abolitionist group