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Born in Torrington, Connecticut on May 9, 1800, John Brown was the
son of a wandering New Englander. Brown spent much of his youth in
Ohio, where he was taught in local schools to resent compulsory
education and by his parents to revere the Bible and hate slavery. As a
boy he herded cattle for General William Hull’s army during the war of
1812; later he served as foreman of his family’s tannery. In 1820 he
married D ....
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.... which racists paid horribly for their sins, and he came
to regard himself as commissioned by God to make that vision a reality.
In August 1885 he followed five of his sons to Kansas to help make the
state a haven for anti-slavery settlers. The following year, his hostility
toward slave-staters exploded after they burned and pillaged the
free-state community of Lawrence. Having organized a militia unit
within his Osawatomie River colony, Brown led i ....
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