yr9_John_Brown

 =John Brown (aka. Nelson Hawkins, aka. Shubel Morgan, aka. Isaac Smith)  =



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I was born May 9th 1800, in Torrington Connecticut. When I was five my family (vehemently anti-slavery) moved to Ohio to an anti-slavery community. At 16, after failing for a university and then later on in life failing to be a congregational minister, I worked in my father’s tannery. In 1820 I married Dianthe Lusk. 1837 in response to the murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy I declared: " Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!”.    =====

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I helped runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad, I helped established the League of Gileadites, a group that helped prevent slave owners from getting runaway slaves. I even raised a black child with my wife. I was famous for leading an assault on the federal armory in Harper’s Ferry in hopes of Arming black slaves and starting an armed anti-slavery war. It failed, though, but later on in the north (when States were divided between north and south) I was praised by a select few for my bravely standing up against the wicked system of slavery. =====

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I, in a sense, started the Civil War, which eventually ended slavery in all of the US and brought the states back together as one, whole United States. =====