During his memorial service, John Brown stood and made a vow to end slavery. 1842 September 28, 1842: A federal court decides John Brown's bankruptcy case. Creditors took all but the essentials on ...

John Brown was "Isaac Smith," a cattle buyer from ... In the 1880s, Frederick Douglass raised money to place a granite memorial at the site. In 1892 it was dismantled brick by brick and ...

John Brown hoped to end slavery when he raided a federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859. His plan failed, but he still changed the course of history. “You can weigh John Brown’s body well enough, but ...

John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. He would spend the next fifty-nine years moving about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and ...

To spend some time, she and her cohorts in the carriage sang a few of the war songs so popular those days, among them, "John Brown's Body," which contained the provocative words, "John Brown's ...