Just off Lawrence Avenue, in an area north of Holcom Sports Complex, one building stands out from the mostly residential ...

John brown dedicated his life to the abolition ... elections in an attempt to make Kansas a slave state. (The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 dictated that the people of the territories would vote ...

John Brown is born in Torrington ... It is the culmination of years of poor business decisions made by Brown. 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: The Missouri Compromise, which restricted the ...

Five of John Brown’s sons responded to the call ... was swept aside by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. With a nod to Southern power, the federal government decided to place the volatile ...

An event that pushed John Brown over the edge. Old Brown was coming, with his militia leading to 56 political killings called Bleeding Kansas.

Redpath knew Brown — had ridden with him in Kansas -- and had been told of the raid. To the alarm of the group, he dedicated the book to John Brown. "You, Old Hero!" wrote Redpath ...

In December, 1858, John Brown led a few men across the Missouri border from Kansas and attacked two proslavery homesteads, confiscating property and liberating slaves. For Brown, the attack was ...

John Brown was a man ... to the antislavery cause, Brown did not emerge as a figure of major significance until 1855 after he followed five of his sons to the Kansas territory.

North Elba, New York 1848 - John Brown moves his family to the Adirondacks, living with a small community of freed slaves. It is a beautiful, harsh and remote environment. 6. Osawatomie, Kansas ...

John Brown's obsession with ending slavery cast him as an abolitionist hero. In 1856, provoked by a bloody attack on Kansas settlers by “border ruffians,” Brown led a raid at Pottawatomie ...