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John Brown is born to a very white, religous family in Torrington, Conneticut. John Browns family were Calvanists. They believed owning slaves was morally wrong
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John Brown travels through the wildlife of Michigan to deliver cattle. He stays with a man who has a young slave. Brown was treated very nicley , he saw the young slave being whipped. These events would never leave John Brown's mind.
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John Brown weds Dianthe Lusk. They move to Pennsylavania a couple years later to start a tannery in the wilderness. She dies shortly after the birth of their newborn.
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John's bankruptcy case is decided by the federal court. Creditors take everything that Brown's family needed to live on. This is because of all the poor buisness decisions he has made in the past.
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John marries Mary Day who is 16 at the time. They have 13 more children together. They have trouble economically paying for the expanding family.
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He faces land speculation and they are forced to move. He takes his family to Franklin Mills , Ohio where they will start a new life. He borrows money to buy land but is later crushed by economic turmoil.
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John Brown was very much agianst slavery even in public. During Elijah Lovejoy's memorial service (she was the publisher of an anitislavery newspaper) he made a vow. The vow he made was to end slavery.
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He has financial problems so he has to move again . This time he moves with two of his sons to Springfiled, Massachusetts. There he starts a wool ditribution center.
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Fredrick Douglas a black abolitionist travels to the Brown's home. Brown makes a plan to lead men and raid plantations containing slaves. The end of the plan has the men and him escape into the mountains.
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John moves his family once again to North Elma, New York. This is significant from the other places they have lived in the past. However, this town is the first place where blacks and whites live together on generally eqaul terms.
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Brown and six other men travel to Kansas following his two sons. Brown knows that Kansas is one of the many disputed areas where slavery is debated. He stays at a settelemt there with all of these people.
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After hearing how Senator Charles Sumner is beaten on the senate floor, Brown and six other men gather weapons.They head toward a pro slavery settlement. Brown and the men are responsible for the death of five men in Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. This outrages the Southern people.
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Brown travels to Boston where he meets six people who will support him in his anti slavery acts . They will be known as the secret six. He collects weaponry and hires a former military tactitain to train the forces he will be leading at Harpers Ferry.
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John leads 21 trained men who he has recruited in an attack on Harpers Ferry. They capture an armory and keep many hostages. To keep the news from reaching D.C., they attepmt to shoot a baggage master on s eastbound train. The news reaches D.C. and Brown and his men are captured by Robert E. Lee after they refuse to surrender.
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After only 4 minutes in the court room, he is pronounced guilty. He is accused of murder, consipracy and treason. He is given the death penalty and will be hanged on December, 2nd.
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John is set to be hanged after being accused of these actions at around 11 o' clock. Before, he writes a final letter to his wife. He is hanged in front of 2,000 people and is pronnounced dead at 11:50.
