John Brown

• Abolitionist

• Twenty kids

• Was asked to help drive away Native Americans and answered “I will have nothing to do with so mean an act. I would sooner take my gun and help drive you out of the country.”

• Participated in the Underground Railroad

• Led the raid at Harpers Ferry, planning to arm enslaved people; all were captured or killed

• Sixteen people were killed, including one of his sons and nine other of his men

• He said to his son Oliver: “If you die, you die in a good cause, fighting for liberty. If you must die, die like a man.”

• First person the U.S. government executed for treason

• John Wilkes Booth attended his hanging

The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth, by Jermaine Fowler

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