His adventures failing him, he accepted poverty

John Brown, while tending his flock in Ohio, first communicated with his sons and daughters his plans of attacking slavery by force.

John Brown's first thought of the place where he would make his attack came to him while surveying land for Oberlin College in West Virginia.

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Kansas was now the skirmish ground of the Civil War.

Those pro-slavery were murdered by those anti-slavery.

John Brown, after long meditation, planned to fortify himself somewhere in the mountains of Virginia or Tennessee and there make raids on the surrounding plantations, freeing slaves.

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In spite of a price on his head, John Brown, in 1859, liberated 12 Negroes from Missouri plantations.

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After John Brown's capture, he was put to trial for his life in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia).

John Brown was found “Guilty of treason and murder in the 1st degree” and was hanged in Charles Town, Virginia on December 2, 1859.

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