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Brown, John

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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American slavery abolitionist; settled in Kansas, and resolutely opposed the project of making it a slave state; in the interest of emancipation, with six others, seized on the State armoury at Harper's Ferry in hope of a rising, entrenched himself armed in it, was surrounded, seized, tried, and hanged (1800-1859).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Brown, John'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/brown-john.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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