John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would ... many Northerners began to speak favorably of the militant abolitionist. "He did not recognize unjust human laws, but resisted them as he ...

John Brown was an abolitionist who spent time in Kansas prior to the Civil War and was involved in a skirmish against a pro-slavery militia in 1856 at Black Jack Battlefield. With his full gray ...

Howe would have assumed that the John Brown of the song was the famous abolitionist. But the song belonged to a young Scotsman in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia who shared Brown's name.

In “A Plea for John Brown,” an oration delivered in Concord ... “a passion for the violent solution to slavery was sweeping the abolitionist citizens of the nation,” as historian Thomas ...

Most historians concentrate on the social and historical events caused by the 1859 raid of abolitionist John Brown and his ...

Altadena resident and filmmaker Pablo Miralles had been scheduled to debut a 20-minute documentary on Owen Brown. Miralles' house burned.

Brown was a son of prominent anti-slavery figure John Brown. His father was executed ... by locals in Pasadena and admired for their abolitionist work. In 1889, Owen Brown died of pneumonia ...

The path that led to that moment was as long and winding as the California history that brought the son of a famous abolitionist to the hills of Los Angeles. Owen Brown's father, John, was a white ...

Over the course of 87 years of nearly ceaseless activity, Higginson had been a teacher, minister, state legislator, fiery ...

The gravesite of Owen Brown, son of abolitionist John Brown, for more than a century a place of pilgrimage for abolitionists and a monument to the Civil War, appears to have been spared by the ...