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John Brown
Title: John Brown
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 1229 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
John Brown
Born in Torrington, Connecticut on May 9, 1800, John Brown 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 William Hull’s army during the war of
1812; later he served as foreman of his family’s tannery. In 1820 he
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…showed last 75 words of 1229 total…me of his own accord, and the greater part of them at
their own expense. A number of them I never saw, and never had a word
of conversation with till the day they came to me; and that was for the
purpose I have stated.
Now I have done.”
Brown was, of course, executed for seizing the federal arsenal at
Harper’s ferry in October, 1859, for the purpose of arming slaves for an
insurrection.
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