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John Brown
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Born in Torrington, Connecticut on May 9, 1800, was the
son of a wandering New Englander. Brown spent much of his youth in
Ohio, where he was taught in local schools to resent compulsory
education and by his parents to revere the Bible and hate slavery. As a
boy he herded cattle for General Willi ....
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....s. The following year, his hostility
toward slave-staters exploded after they burned and pillaged the
free-state community of Lawrence. Having organized a militia unit
within his Osawatomie River colony, Brown led it on a mission of
revenge. On the evening of May twenty-third, 1856, he and six
followers, including four of his sons, visited the homes of pro-slavery
men along Pottawatomie Creek, dragged their unarmed inhabitants into
the night, and hacked them to death with long-edged swor.... |
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