John Brown is born in Torrington, Connecticut. His father, Owen, a strict Calvinist, hated slavery and believed that holding humans in bondage was a sin against God. 1812 The War of 1812 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown and his team launched a raid on a federal armory located in Harpers Ferry which was located in the ...

It is said that John Brown was the spark that started the Civil War. Truly, he marked the end of compromise over the issue of slavery, and it was not long after his death that John Brown's war ...

And Brown may not have ended the war on slavery, but some say he had a pretty big role in starting the war. “Walt Whitman called John Brown the mediator of the war,” Baldau said.