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John Brown
John Brown Timeline
1800 John Brown born in Connecticut.
1833 John Brown married his second wife, who took care of
his five children and later bore him thirteen of her own.
Finances got harder as he attempted to provide for his
large family.
1837 November 7: John Brown vowed to end slavery when he
learned that an abolitionist newspaperman was killed.
1842 John Brown went bankrupt. Lost almost everything.
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Voters will decide if
Nebraska Territory will be slave or free.
1855 John Brown followed his sons to Kansas as Free-Soilers.
1856 May 24: Brown went to nearby Pottawatomie Creek and
directed his men in the murder of five proslavery settlers.
1859 October 16: John Brown attacked the armory at Harpers
Ferry with 21 men (16 white, 5 black). Within 36 hours,
they were almost all captured or killed. Two of John
Brown’s sons were killed.
November 2: A Virginia jury found John Brown guilty of
murder, treason, and inciting a slave insurrection.
December 2: John Brown was hanged.
1860 November: Abraham Lincoln elected President.
1861 April 12: The South seceded, and the Civil War began.
1865 The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished
slavery.
John Brown
Document A: John Brown's Speech (Modified)
I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. In the
first place, I deny everything but what I have all along
admitted -- the design on my part to free the slaves. That
was all I intended. I never did intend murder, or treason, or
the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to
rebellion, or to make insurrection.
I have another objection: had I so interfered in behalf of the
rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in
behalf of any of their friends . . . it would have been all right;
and every man in this court would have deemed it an act
worthy of reward rather than punishment.
I believe that to have done what I have done--on behalf of
God’s despised poor was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is
deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life to further the
end of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of
my children and with the blood of millions in this slave
country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and
unjust acts-- I say: so let it be done!
Vocabulary
Insurrection: revolt
Forfeit: give up
Source: This was John Brown's last speech. November 2, 1859.
John Brown
Document B: Last Meeting Between Frederick Douglass
and John Brown (Modified)
About three weeks before the raid on Harper's Ferry, John
Brown wrote to me, informing me that before going forward
he wanted to see me . . .
We sat down and talked over his plan to take over Harper’s
Ferry. I at once opposed the measure with all the arguments
at my command. To me such a measure would be fatal to
the work of the helping slaves escape [Underground
Railroad]. It would be an attack upon the Federal
government, and would turn the whole country against us.
Captain John Brown did not at all object to upsetting the
nation; it seemed to him that something shocking was just
what the nation needed. He thought that the capture of
Harper's Ferry would serve as notice to the slaves that their
friends had come, and as a trumpet to rally them.
Of course I was no match for him, but I told him, and these
were my words, that all his arguments, and all his
descriptions of the place, convinced me that he was going
into a perfect steel-trap, and that once in he would never get
out alive.
Source: In this passage, Frederick Douglass describes his last
meeting with John Brown, about three weeks before the raid on
Harper’s Ferry. Douglass published this account in 1881 in The Life
and Times of Frederick Douglass.
John Brown
Document C: Letter to John Brown in Prison (Modified)
Massachusetts, Oct 26th, 1859
Dear Capt Brown,
You do not know me, but I have supported your struggles in
Kansas, when that Territory became the battle-ground
between slavery and freedom.
Believing in peace, I cannot sympathize with the method you
chose to advance the cause of freedom. But I honor your
generous intentions, I admire your courage, moral and
physical, I respect you for your humanity, I sympathize with
your cruel loss, your sufferings and your wrongs. In brief, I
love you and bless you.
Thousands of hearts are throbbing with sympathy as warm
as mine. I think of you night and day, bleeding in prison,
surrounded by hostile faces, sustained only by trust in God,
and your own strong heart. I long to nurse you, to speak to
you sisterly words of sympathy and consolation. May God
sustain you, and carry you through whatsoever may be in
store for you!
Yours with heartfelt respect, sympathy, and affection.
L. Maria Child.
Source: The letter below was written to John Brown while he was in
prison, awaiting trial.
John Brown
Guiding Questions Name____________
Document A:
1. John Brown delivered this speech on the last day of his trial, after hearing the jury
pronounce him ‘guilty.’ He knew he would be sentenced to die. Given that context,
what does this speech say about him as a person?
2. Based on this document, do you think John Brown was a “misguided fanatic”? Why
or why not?
Document B:
1. What are two reasons why Douglass opposed John Brown’s plan to raid Harper’s
Ferry?
2. Douglass’s account is written in 1881, twenty-two years after the raid. Do you trust
his account? Why or why not?
3. Based on this document, do you think John Brown was a “misguided fanatic”? Why or
why not?
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