101 Facts About John Brown

1. John Brown traveled through the East, speaking on the Kansas question and gathering money for arms, for "without the shedding of blood", he said, there could be "no remission of sin" in Kansas.

2. John Brown has engaged in more odd behavior since the end of the 2017 season: A Pittsburgh radio station, 93.7 The Fan, has chronicled it with an extensive timeline.

3. John Brown was a first-round pick in the 1973 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks.

4. John Brown was the first major in-state recruit Stewart landed and left Columbia as the Tigers' career leading scorer in 1973 with 1,421 points.

5. John Brown joined the bureau in 1999 as part of the Chicago field office and was sent to Iraq in 2004.

6. At the age of twelve, young John Brown witnessed a slave boy being beaten and driven outdoors to sleep in the cold.

7. John Brown refused a chance to surrender and 36 hours after the raid had started, Brown and his remaining companions were captured.

8. John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut, on May 9, 1800, to Owen and Ruth Brown.

9. John Brown traveled through the East, speaking on the Kansas question and gathering money for arms, for "without the shedding of blood", he said, there could be "no remission of sin" in Kansas.

10. John Brown found his other brother, 20-year-old Drury, lying dead nearby.

11. John Brown had long used the terminology of the Subterranean Pass Way from the late 1840s, so it is possible that Delany conflated Brown's statements over the years.

12. John Brown forced Pate to sign a treaty, exchanging the freedom of Pate and his men for the promised release of Brown's two captured sons.

13. John Brown gave his rocking chair to the mother of his beloved black porter, Thomas Thomas, as a gesture of affection.

14. In October 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, intending to start a slave liberation movement that would spread south through the mountainous regions of Virginia and North Carolina; there was a draft constitution for the state he hoped to establish.

15. John Brown will visit Perry, where once-unionized meatpacking plants are now staffed largely by immigrant workers willing to accept lower wages.

16. John Brown argued, taking a very public step in his consideration of a 2020 presidential campaign, that working-class voters who backed Trump have been betrayed, notably by the Republican-signed tax bill that benefited wealthy Americans more.

17. John Brown is seen by some Democrats as a bridge to winning Trump's voters who previously supported former President Obama.

18. At an event Thursday, John Brown told Iowa Democrats that members of the party were making a false choice between campaigning for the party's progressive base or working-class families, according to the Des Moines Register.

19. John Brown was then traded a day after the 49ers selected his replacement, Mike McGlinchey, with the No 9 pick.

20. John Brown is still unfairly evaluated, while other historical figures are given far more leeway.

21. On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

22. John Brown was portrayed on film by John Cromwell in the 1940 Abe Lincoln in Illinois.

23. John Brown wrote a Provisional Constitution that would create a government for a new state in the region of his invasion.

24. John Brown made his men return to Iowa, where he fed them tidbits of his Virginia scheme.

25. John Brown eventually moved into a home with his family across the street from the Perkins' Mansion located on Perkins Hill.

26. At the age of 16, John Brown left his family and went to Plainfield, Massachusetts, where he enrolled in a preparatory program.

27. John Brown was an American abolitionist, who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery.

28. Frederick Douglass and Black Allies John Brown was influenced by the life story of Frederick Douglass.

29. John Brown was born to a religious family from Connecticut who despised the institution of slavery.

30. John Brown has the oldest undergraduate engineering program out of all of the Ivy League schools.

31. John Brown was tried and hanged at Charlestown, Virginia, on December 2, 1859.

32. John Brown led a successful retaliation and captured Captain Henry Pate, whom he had forced to sign a treaty and traded with Colonel Edwin Summers for his sons.

33. John Brown became a parishioner at the Sanford Street Free Church, where he witnessed abolitionist lectures by Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.

34. John Brown became an active abolitionist when he was in Springfield from 1846 until he left in 1850.

35. John Brown was in the Congregational Church before the 1840s, and he never joined another Church.

36. John Brown was born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut.

37. John Brown was an abolitionist who led armed anti-slavery raids in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

38. On March 13, 2018, John Brown signed a one year, $5 million contract with the Baltimore Ravens.

39. John Brown was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft.

40. John Brown led a troop of 21 trained men, 16 white and 5 black to the Arsenal, but they were soon discovered.

41. John Brown spent most of 1856 touring New England raising money for his cause.

42. John Brown believed that these armed slaves would then join his army and free even more slaves as they fanned southward along the Appalachian Mountains.

43. At the farm John Brown trained his 21 man army and planned their capture of the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

44. At the age of 55, John Brown moved with his sons to Kansas Territory.

45. John Brown failed at several business ventures before declaring bankruptcy in 1842.

46. John Brown went east in early 1857 with plans to invade the South; he gathered supporters at Tabor, Iowa, for training.

47. John Brown spent the summer of 1856 in New England collecting money for his fight against slavery.

48. John Brown traveled through the East, urging an end to slavery in Kansas and gathering money for weapons to help achieve that end.

49. John Brown was born at Torrington, Connecticut, on May 4, 1800, to Owen Brown and Ruth Mills Brown.

50. John Brown was a Scottish personal servant and favourite of Queen Victoria for many years.

51. John Brown planned to invade the South with a band of guerilla fighters.

52. John Brown vowed to take revenge for the attack on Lawrence.

53. John Brown had chosen Kansas as the place where he would make a stand against slavery.

54. John Brown attended one of the meetings and dedicated himself to the abolition of slavery.

55. John Brown was a highly controversial member of the movement to abolish slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War.

56. John Brown was executed at about noon on December 2, 1859.

57. John Brown took up watch inside the thick walls of the armory.

58. On October 16, 1859, John Brown moved his guns and ammunition to a schoolhouse closer to Harpers Ferry.

59. John Brown was close friends with many leaders of the antislavery movement in the 1850s.

60. John Brown helped start a new political party, the Radical Abolitionists, to support the immediate, total abolition of slavery.

61. John Brown tried several jobs but was never very successful at any of them.

62. John Brown became part of that migration at age five, when his family moved to the frontier town of Hudson, Ohio, south of Cleveland.

63. John Brown raised a small band and engaged in several pitched battles against proslavery militants.

64. At this point, John Brown had long been active in the Underground Railroad.

65. John Brown was born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut, and he died on the scaffold in Charlestown, Virginia, on December 2, 1859.

66. John Brown died March 27, 1883, at Windsor Castle and was buried at Crathie cemetery.

67. John Brown was born at Crathie, near Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, December 8, 1826.

68. John Brown settled with five of his sons in Kansas to help secure the territory's entry as a free state.

69. John Brown was hanged in Charles Town on December 2, 1859.

70. John Brown was taken to Charles Town, Virginia, to be tried.

71. On October 16, 1859, the 59-year-old John Brown led his Provisional Army, consisting of five black men and 21 whites in a nighttime raid on the town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

72. John Brown was a participant in the Underground Railroad, an informal network of exslaves and sympathetic whites that helped slaves escape their masters and travel north to freedom.

73. John Brown proposed to show the residents of North Elba how to farm and to act as a mentor to them.

74. John Brown met the great abolitionist leader frederick douglass in 1847 and impressed Douglass with his sympathy for African Americans—both slaves and freemen.

75. John Brown went east in early 1857 with plans to invade the South; he gathered supporters at Tabor, Iowa, for training.

76. John Brown spent the summer of 1856 in New England collecting money for his fight against slavery.

77. John Brown traveled through the East, urging an end to slavery in Kansas and gathering money for weapons to help achieve that end.

78. John Brown was one of the most famous abolitionists, or opponents of slavery, in history.

79. John Brown spent the summer of 1856 collecting money for Kansas in New England, where prominent public figures, some not wholly aware of the details of his Kansas activities, were impressed by his dedication to the abolitionist cause.

80. John Brown traveled through the East, speaking on the Kansas question and gathering money for arms, for "without the shedding of blood", he said, there could be "no remission of sin" in Kansas.

81. John Brown was constantly moving from one state to the next.

82. John Brown was born to a religious family from Connecticut who despised the institution of slavery.

83. John Brown was a white abolitionist who led a rebellion against slavery in the United States.

84. John Brown met with renowned orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass in 1847 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

85. John Brown took part in the Underground Railroad, gave land to free African Americans and eventually established the League of Gileadites, a group formed with the intention of protecting black citizens from slave hunters.

86. John Brown was born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut, to Ruth Mills and Owen Brown.

87. John Brown was born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut, in a Calvinist household and would go on to have a large family of his own.

88. John Brown went to trial and was executed on December 2, 1859.

89. John Brown had appeared to be an everyman on his rented farm.

90. John Brown used his daughter and daughter-in-law to add to the delusion.

91. John Brown invoked a fear that communities had not experienced before.

92. John Brown hoped for nothing less than a full uprising of servant against master.

93. John Brown was born May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut, but spent much of his youth in Ohio.

94. John Brown was born during the period of the Haitian Revolution, which saw Haitian slaves revolting against the French.

95. John Brown sent his son Watson and another supporter out under a white flag, but the angry crowd shot them.

96. John Brown was no longer looking toward Kansas and was entirely focused on Virginia.

97. John Brown made his men return to Iowa, where he told them tidbits of his Virginia scheme.

98. John Brown hired him as his men's drillmaster and to write their tactical handbook.

99. John Brown was particularly affected by the sacking of Lawrence in May 1856, in which a sheriff-led posse destroyed newspaper offices and a hotel.

100. John Brown founded the League with the words, "Nothing so charmes the American people as personal bravery.

101. John Brown eventually moved into a home with his family across the street from the Perkins Stone Mansion on Perkins Hill.