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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Most abolitionists were lukewarm, at best, on the notion of racial equality. John Brown in this regard was, I think, remarkable." Despite his contributions to the antislavery cause, Brown did ...

Here lay the remains of Owen Brown, son of the legendary abolitionist John Brown. Owen moved to Pasadena in the 1880s and was greeted by locals as a hero for fighting alongside his father in the ...