On May 9th, 1800 a boy or a legend I should say named John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut. Brown was the second of Owen and Ruth Brown’s sixteen children. The Browns thought of themselves as descendants of Peter Brown, who came over on the Mayflower. As a boy John and his family were very religious and extremely concerned with morals. When Brown was five years old Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the country by the single purchase of the huge Louisiana Territory from France. On his fifth birthday Brown and his family set off for Ohio. On John’s journey to Ohio he learned pioneering skills, such as riding horses, driving the cows, helping the Browns’ adopted helper, a boy twice his age. John became a young buckskin learning to make lea
John Brown initiated in Pennsylvania, where he was then living a project among sympathetic abolitionists to educate young blacks. The next twenty years of his life were largely dedicated to this and similar anti –slavery ventures. In 1855 he followed five of his sons to Kansas Territory, then a center of struggle between the anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces. Under Brown’s leadership his sons became active participants in the fight against pro-slavery terrorists from Missouri, whose activities led to the murder of a number of abolitionists at Lawrence, Kansas. Brown and his sons averaged this crime on May 24th, 1856, at Pottawatonie Creek by killing five pro-slavery adherents. Brown began in 1857 to formulate a plan, which he had long entertained to
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