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John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was a prominent leader in the American abolitionist movement in the decades preceding the Civil War.First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
e. John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry[nb 1]was an effort by abolitionistJohn Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revoltin Southern statesby taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia(since 1863, West Virginia). It has been called the dress rehearsalfor, or tragic preludeto, the American Civil War.
John Brown is a biography written by W. E. B. Du Bois about the abolitionist John Brown. Published in 1909, it tells the story of John Brown, from his Christian rural upbringing, to his failed business ventures and finally his "blood feud" with the institution of slavery as a whole. Its moral symbolizes the significance and impact of a white ...
The film was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich, West Germany, and on location in London. Starring David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida and John Moulder-Brown, it was nominated unsuccessfully for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972. It was not released in the US until 1978.
Lester Holt sits down for an interview with General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Feb. 12, 2024. (NBC News)
"Ulterior Motives" is a new wave and synth-pop song recorded by the British-Canadian filmmakers Christopher Saint Booth and Philip Adrian Booth around 1986. It gained popularity online after a seventeen-second snippet of the song, at the time unidentified, was posted online in 2021. Derived from the previously debated lyrics of the
John Brown's Body. " John Brown's Body " (originally known as " John Brown's Song ") is a United States marching song about the abolitionist John Brown. The song was popular in the Union during the American Civil War. The song arose out of the folk hymn tradition of the American camp meeting movement of the late 18th and early 19th century.
The so-called Battle of the Spurs took place about 7 miles (11 km) north of Holton, Kansas, near Netawaka, Kansas, on January 31, 1859. Abolitionist John Brown, together with J. H. Kagi and Aaron Dwight Stevens, was escorting a group of 11 escaped slaves from the slave state of Missouri to freedom in Iowa. At Straight Creek they faced a posse ...