John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would ... publication of David Walker's Appeal and Henry Highland's "Call to Rebellion" speech. He gave land to fugitive slaves. He and his wife agreed ...

or incite slaves to rebellion. He referred to the Bible. "[T]o have interfered as I have done," he stated, ". . . in behalf of His despied poor, was not wrong, but right." John Brown was hanged ...

John Brown is born in Torrington, Connecticut. His father, Owen, a strict Calvinist, hated slavery and believed that holding humans in bondage was a sin against God. 1812 The War of 1812 ...

During the summer of 1859, John Brown rented a farm in Maryland from the heirs of Booth Kennedy. A few miles outside Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), it was a good hiding spot for ...

Jefferson County, in the state’s eastern panhandle, is the dramatic setting for John ... “Brown and his accomplices were charged with murder, treason and inciting a slaves’ rebellion ...

Address of John Brown to the Virginia Court at Charles Town ... or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection. I have another objection; and that is, it is unjust that ...