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27 paź 2009 · John Brown was a militant abolitionist whose violent raid on the U.S. military armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, was a flashpoint in the pre-Civil War era.
John Brown (ur. 9 maja 1800 w Torrington, zm. 2 grudnia 1859 w Charles Town) – jeden z głównych przedstawicieli abolicjonizmu amerykańskiego. Był idealistą, nieprzejednanym wrogiem posiadaczy niewolników, których uważał za przestępców.
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American evangelist who was a prominent leader in the American abolitionist movement in the decades preceding the Civil War.
11 lis 2024 · John Brown was a 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.
John, ur. 9 V 1800, Torrington (stan Connecticut), zm. 2 XII 1859, Charleston (stan Wirginia), abolicjonista amerykański; 1859 dokonał nieudanej próby wywołania powstania niewolników na Południu (atak na arsenał w Harpers Ferry w Wirginii); schwytany i mimo dowodów niepoczytalności skazany na śmierć; egzekucja Browna zaogniła ...
16 maj 2023 · Who Was John Brown? In many ways Brown was a typical 19th-century American. He was born in Torrington, Connecticut, into a family of deeply religious Congregationalists who were Puritan in their heritage and overtly antislavery in their views. When he was five, the family moved to what was then the "West."
11 lis 2024 · Harpers Ferry Raid, (October 16–18, 1859), assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal armory located at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). It was a main precipitating incident to the American Civil War.
