John Brown

John Brown

John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist leader. First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, he was eventually captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War. A man of strong religious convictions, Brown believed he was "an instrument of God",: 248  raised up to strike the death blow to American slavery, a "sacred obligation".: 189  Brown was the leading exponent of violence in the American abolitionist movement:: 426  he believed that violence was necessary to end American slavery, since decades of peaceful efforts had failed. Brown said repeatedly that in working to free the enslaved he was following the Golden Rule, as well as the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Brown has received more than 237,289 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). John Brown is the 124th most popular social activist (up from 136th in 2019), the 1,315th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,399th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Social Activist.

John Brown was a militant abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.