John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would ... Brown and his sons would continue to fight in the territory and in Missouri for the rest of the year. Brown returned to the east and began ...

In December, 1858, John Brown led a few men across the Missouri border from Kansas and attacked two proslavery homesteads, confiscating property and liberating slaves. For Brown, the attack was ...

Kerry Altenbernd, a John Brown-portrayer and president of the Guardians ... who was a slave in Vernon County, Missouri. Daniels was allowed by his master to go around selling brooms that Daniels ...

These acquaintances will later constitute the members of the "Secret Six." John Brown rides into Missouri and attacks two proslavery homesteads, confiscating property and liberating eleven of ...

126,000 square miles of wilderness lying west of Missouri had just been opened for settlement. Five of John Brown’s sons responded to the call, joining thousands of settlers heading west in ...

Address of John Brown to the Virginia Court at Charles Town ... as I did last winter, when I went into Missouri and took slaves without the snapping of a gun on either side, moved them through ...