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9 de mai. de 2024 · John Brown, militant American abolitionist and veteran of Bleeding Kansas whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 and subsequent execution made him an antislavery martyr and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War.
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
On the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act (1850), Higginson...
- Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
In his years at Concord, Sanborn came to know many of the...
- Arthur Tappan
Arthur Tappan (born May 22, 1786, Northampton,...
- Abigail Kelley Foster
Abigail Kelley Foster (born January 15, 1811, Pelham,...
- Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker (born August 24, 1810, Lexington,...
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
28 de mai. de 2024 · Dagherrotipo di John Brown, ca. 1856. John Brown (Torrington, 9 maggio 1800 – Charles Town, 2 dicembre 1859) è stato un attivista statunitense, fautore dell'abolizionismo e dedito alla causa della Ferrovia Sotterranea, che sosteneva l'insurrezione armata come l'unico modo per eliminare la schiavitù.
Há 1 dia · Stay. Born in 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut, John was the son of a fervently anti-slavery tanner. His parents, Owen and Ruth Mills Brown, were deeply religious, and their Calvinist beliefs ...
17 de mai. de 2024 · May 24, 1856 - May 25, 1856. Location: Kansas. United States. Key People: John Brown. Pottawatomie Massacre, (May 24–25, 1856), murder of five men from a proslavery settlement on Pottawatomie Creek, Franklin county, Kan., U.S., by an antislavery party led by the abolitionist John Brown and composed largely of men of his family.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
27 de mai. de 2024 · The kinds of document bonfire-burning that can make a historian weep. But I think her relationship with Brown provides one of the greatest insights into the simple, adoring, unaffected soul of a lonely monarch. 4. John Brown, Queen Victoria’s favourite servant (a ‘ghillie’ or ‘gillie’), who has even been rumoured to have been her ...
Há 4 dias · John Brown ran Stryker Corp., a medical device and software company, for 32 years before retiring as chairman in 2009. Stryker's revenues climbed from $17 million to $6.7 billion under Brown's ...
24 de mai. de 2024 · John Brown became the first senator for the district of Kentucky some nine years before statehood, when Kentuckians made him their first choice for the US Senate, a body which twice appointed him president pro tempore; yet today he is largely unknown.
