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__**John**__ **__Brown__** **By: Kelsey Pacheco**
 * 1800-1859**
 * 1847-met Fedeick Douglass when he led his plan to lead the war to free slaves.
 * 1851-helped establish league of Gileadies orginization to protect escaped slaves from slave catchers.
 * ====== 1855- Didnt emerge as a major significance untill﻿ ======
 * 1820 he married Dianthe Lusk, who bore him 7 children; 5 years later they moved to Pennsylvania to operate a tannery of their own. Within a year after Dianthe's death in 1831, Brown wed 16-year-old Mary Anne Day, by whom he fathered 13 more children.
 * The next 24 years Brown built and sold several tanneries, speculated in land sales, raised sheep, and established a brokerage for wool growers
 * By the time he was 50, Brown was entranced by visions of slave uprisings, during which racists paid horribly for their sins, and he came to regard himself as commissioned by God to make that vision a reality
 * In autumn 1856, temporarily defeated but still committed to his vision of a slave insurrection, Brown returned to Ohio
 * 1859 he transferred his operations to western Virginia, collected an army of 21 men, including 5 blacks, and on the night of October 16th raided the government armory
 * The fighting ended with 10 of Brown's people killed and 7 captured, Brown among them.


 * **FUN FACTS:**
 * Stood trial in Charlestown,Virginia on November 2nd was found guilty of murder, conspiracy and treason, his conviction wa being hung.
 * He had 2 wives and 20 children
 * Born 4th out of 8 children
 * He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas
 * Killed slavery
 * Bibliogrophy:**
 * " John Brown" (1800-1859) 06. March 2011 []**
 * "John Brown " __Spartsacus Educational__ 06. March 2011 []**
 * " John Brown " __The History of John Brown__ 06. March 2011 []**