John Brown was not content with speeches, petitions, or polite reform. He believed slavery was a crime so extreme that only force could end it. His meeting with Frederick Douglass exposed a plan that ...

Cloudsplitter: A Novel,” by Russell Banks, is a 750-page missive that tells the story of John Brown’s lifelong fight against slavery through his son, Owen’s, eyes. The author lived in Keene, New York, ...

PLATTSBURGH — When Mary Ann Day Brown arrived in Red Bluff, California, on Sept. 30, 1864, the widow left behind her abolitionist-martyr husband’s remains in a four-year-old grave in North Elba. The ...

John Brown did not stumble into violence. He chose it deliberately. Convinced that law and politics had failed, he believed ...

Program recognizes more than 800 locations in the U.S. and Canada with connections to the Underground Railroad. Brown was the ...