PBS

Following John Brown

John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. He would spend the next fifty-nine years moving about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and traveling ...
Afro

Old Western Maryland Farmstead’s Black History Runs from John Brown to James Brown

DARGAN, Md. (AP) — From John Brown’s raid to James Brown’s wail, a stream of hot-blooded American history runs through a 19th-century farmstead in the Appalachian foothills of western Maryland. The ...
Yahoo

For fiery abolitionist John Brown, justice and violence commingled in Kansas struggles

Kerry Altenbernd, a Lawrence-based reenactor, portrays the abolitionist John Brown. (Frank Barthell photo) Brown’s first stop was the farmhouse of settler James Doyle. While his wife Mahalia begged ...
The Herald-Mail

Keedysville Historical Society revisits escapees from John Brown’s 1859 raid

The Keedysville Historical Society will host a presentation on the 1859 John Brown raid on Harper's Ferry. The event will take place at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, 53 N. Main St., ...
VTDigger

Then Again: The minister who sided with John Brown and the abolitionist cause

An etching of John Brown’s funeral appeared in the Dec. 24, 1859 edition of the New York Illustrated News. Image from Wikimedia Commons Joshua Young had a train to catch. Aboard it was his hero, the ...
Wichita Eagle

Civil War buffs re-create John Brown's 1859 raid

DARGAN, Md. —Just as cold, damp weather couldn't quench Kansas abolitionist John Brown's incendiary fervor, it didn't discourage those determined to follow his footsteps Friday, 150 years after he ...
The Root

Was John Brown’s 1st Victim Black?

Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...
PBS

The gathering and John Brown's Fort

During the summer of 1859, John Brown rented a farm in Maryland from the heirs of Booth Kennedy. A few miles outside Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), it was a good hiding spot for Brown ...
KCUR 89.3 FM

John Brown in Kansas: A tour of the state's landmarks and tributes to the militant abolitionist

John Brown commemorated with a statue in the Quindaro neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. Abolitionist John Brown wasn't born in Kansas, but made his mark during the Bleeding Kansas era before the ...
The Grio

Why Malcolm X said white people should be like abolitionist John Brown

OPINION: To commemorate the civil rights leader's birthday, we looked back at what Malcolm X had to say about white supremacy and why he considered John Brown the standard for white allyship. At a ...
The Atlantic

The Virginia Campaign of John Brown (Part VI)

About a century and a half ago, Robert Harper, a master-carpenter and mill-wright, born in English Oxford, emigrated to Philadelphia, where he built mills, churches, and Quaker meeting-houses, and ...