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27 ott 2009 · John Brown was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement who believed in aggressive action against slaveholders and any government officials who enabled them. He led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 to seize a federal armory and free enslaved people, but was captured and executed by the U.S. government.
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9 mag 2024 · John Brown, militant American abolitionist and veteran of Bleeding Kansas whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 and subsequent execution made him an antislavery martyr and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War.
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John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was a prominent leader in the American abolitionist movement in the decades preceding the Civil War.
2 apr 2014 · John Brown was a 19th-century militant abolitionist who led a raid on the Harpers Ferry federal armory in 1859, hoping to inspire a slave insurrection. He was captured, tried and executed, and his actions sparked a national debate over slavery and the Union.
19 apr 2024 · Harpers Ferry Raid, (October 16–18, 1859), assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal armoury located at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). It was a main precipitating incident to the American Civil War.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
John Brown was a radical abolitionist who led raids against slavery in Kansas and Virginia. He was hanged in 1859 after his failed attempt to capture the Harpers Ferry Arsenal.
4 mar 2010 · John Brown was an abolitionist who led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859 to spark a slave rebellion. He was captured, tried and executed, but his actions inflamed sectional tensions and contributed to the Civil War.
