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1800–1859 United States
John Brown (9 May 1800 – 2 December 1859) was an American abolitionist who advocated and practiced insurrection as a means to the abolition of slavery. First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, he was eventually captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War.
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These men are all talk; What is needed is action — action!
All persons known to be of good character and of sound mind and suitable age, who are connected with this organization, whether male or female, shall be encouraged to carry arms openly.
Provisional Constitution and Ordinances (1858)
Persons convicted of the forcible violation of any female prisoner shall be put to death.
Provisional Constitution and Ordinances (1858)
Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win,
John Brown died that the slaves might be free. His soul goes marching on.
I bring you one of the best and bravest persons on this continent — General Tubman as we call her.
I believe that to have interfered as I have done—as I have always freely admitted I have done—in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right.
I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, — being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.
Nothing so charms the American people as personal bravery.
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done.
This is a beautiful country.
I acknowledge no master in human form.
Prison interview (1859)
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