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When he learned that John Brown had been executed, said, “Of all the men who are said to be my contemporaries, it seems to me that John Brown is the only one who has not died.” Marching into battle during the, Union soldiers sang the song “John Brown’s Body.”Moving about restlessly through Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and, Brown was barely able to support his large family in any of several vocations at which he tried his hand: tanner, sheep drover, wool merchant, farmer, and land speculator. Though he was white, in 1849 Brown settled with his family in a black founded at North Elba, New York, on land donated by the New York antislavery philanthropist. Long a foe of, Brown became obsessed with the idea of taking overt action to help win for enslaved black people. In 1855 he followed five of his sons to the Kansas Territory to assist antislavery forces struggling for control there, a conflict that became known as. With a wagon laden with guns and ammunition, Brown settled in and soon became the leader of antislavery guerrillas in the area. In the spring of 1858, Brown a meeting of black and white supporters in, Ontario, Canada, at which he announced his intention of establishing in the Maryland and Virginia mountains a stronghold for escaping slaves.
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He proposed, and the convention adopted, a provisional constitution for the people of the. He was elected commander in chief of this paper government while gaining the and financial support of Gerrit Smith and several prominent Boston abolitionists.
In addition to Smith, this group, later referred to as the “Secret Six,” physician and educator, teacher and later journalist, industrialist George L. Stearns, and ministers. Some of them had provided financial support for Brown’s efforts in Kansas, and they would back his next and most famous undertaking, too. Facts Matter.
Support the truth and unlock all of Britannica’s content.In the summer of 1859, with an armed band of 16 white and 5 black abolitionists, Brown set up a headquarters in a rented farmhouse in Maryland, across the from, the site of a federal armoury. On the night of October 16, he quickly took the armoury and rounded up some 60 leading men of the area as hostages. Brown took this desperate action in the hope that escaped slaves would join his rebellion, forming an “army of emancipation” with which to liberate their fellow slaves.
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Throughout the next day and night he and his men held out against the local militia, but on the following morning he surrendered to a of troops under the command of Col., including a small force of that had broken into the armoury and overpowered Brown and his comrades. Brown himself was wounded, and 10 of his followers (including two sons) were killed. He was tried for murder, slave insurrection, and treason against the state and was convicted and hanged (, later ’s assassin, was present at the execution as a militiaman.).