Sanborn calls a meeting of the "Secret Six." 15. Chatham, Canada May 8, 1858 - John Brown meets with African American leaders to promote his plan to incite a slave revolt in Virginia.

For almost ten years John Brown's Fort stood in a field three miles outside of town. In 1909, Storer College, a school founded after the Civil War for African Americans, bought the building and ...

Many Americans have been aghast at ... But Thoreau decided that Brown was literally Jesus—or at least that Jesus and John Brown were “two ends of a chain which I rejoice to know is not without ...

On Dec. 2, 1859, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed John Brown ... men are separated by more than 150 years of American history. Moreover, Brown was a fervent religious adherent; Mangione ...

John George Brown, born in 1831 in Durham, England, was an American artist known for his genre scenes depicting street urchins in New York. He studied at the School of Design, Newcastle-on-Tyne and ...