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 ....
Middle of paper
.... metaphysical and he began
to brook over the plight of the weak and oppressed. He frequently sought
the company of blacks, for two years living in a freedmen’s community
in North Elba, New York. In time he became a militant abolitionist, a
"conductor" on the Underground Railroad, and the organizer of a
self-protection league for free blacks and fugitive slaves.
By the time he was fifty, Brown was entranced by visions of slave
uprisings, during which racists pai ....
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