Upon the 2d of July, 1856, Captain John Brown called on me at the Eastern House, in Lawrence, Kansas. He had left his company, twenty-two men, camped on the Wakerusa, a few miles from town.

John Brown's old home was long an antiques shop. Marvin Fong'/The Plain Dealer. Abolitionist John Brown once lived in this home, located off Route 303 in Richfield, OH, Wednesday, February 13, 2019.

Old John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save; But though he lost his life in struggling for the slave, ...

John Brown weds sixteen-year-old Mary Day. Mary takes cares of Brown's five children and will later bear him thirteen of her own. Economic hardships will escalate as he attempts to provide for ...

‘I approached the old quarry very cautiously,” Frederick Douglass wrote in the summer of 1859, “for John Brown was generally well armed, and regarded strangers with suspicion.” ...

JOHN BROWN'S WIDOW. The correspondent. Share full article. Sept. 6, 1865. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from September 6, 1865, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

DARGAN, Md. (AP) — From John Brown’s raid to James Brown’s wail, a stream of hot-blooded American history runs through a 19th-century farmstead in the Appalachian foothills of western ...

John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?

John Brown was in town; it was time to go over the plan. Much had changed in the year since Sanborn first met Brown. At that time the 26-year-old Harvard grad had been acting as secretary for the ...