John Brown rides into Missouri and attacks two proslavery homesteads, confiscating property and liberating eleven of their slaves. Brown travels eighty-two days and covers over a thousand miles ...

John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry ...

John Brown's address to the court ... when I went into Missouri and took slaves without the snapping of a gun on either side, moved them through the country, and finally left them in Canada.

Abolitionist John Brown wasn't born in Kansas, but made his mark during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War. Today, 165 years after his execution, Brown's violent acts and influence are ...

Brown, John Associated Name Blair, Charles maker Sharps Description Physical Description Sharps sporting percussion rifle, .44 caliber. ... As Missouri pro-slavery “Ruffians” flocked to Kansas, the ...