John Brown Biography

John Brown biography

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NAME: John Brown
OCCUPATION: Activist
BIRTH DATE: May 09, 1800
DEATH DATE: December 02, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH: Torrington, Connecticut

PLACE OF DEATH: Charles Town, West Virginia
Nickname: Old Osawatomie Brown

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John Brown was a militant abolitionist whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry heightened sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War.

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John Brown was born May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut. A militant American abolitionist, his raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia), in 1859 made him a martyr to the antislavery cause when he was subsequently hanged for treason, and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War (1861–1865).