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While herding cattle, John witnessed a white slave owner beating a slave with an iron shovel. The memory of the beating together with his religious believe led to his strong Abolitionist ideas.
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He marries sixteen-year-old Mary Day who helps raise his 5 children. His second marriage produces another thirteen children
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The period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state.
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John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers—some of them members of the Pottawatomie Rifles—killed five settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas.
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He leads a group of 21 men in an attack on the U.S. arsenal. This mission failed.
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John Brown was hanged for treason.
