The court found Brown guilty and asked if there ... was not wrong, but right." John Brown was hanged one month later, on December 2, 1859.

John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would ... Brown was allowed make an address to the court. . . . I believe to have interfered as I have done, . . . in behalf of His despised poor ...

As with everything John Brown did, he approached business ... Creditors foreclosed and dragged him into court. Brown was found to be negligent and shortsighted in his business transactions ...

During his memorial service, John Brown stood and made a vow to end slavery. 1842 September 28, 1842: A federal court decides John Brown's bankruptcy case. Creditors took all but the essentials on ...

John Brown and many of his followers holed up in ... Indeed, almost no one—pro-slavery or antislavery—was ever arraigned in a court for killings that took place during the guerrilla war ...

John Brown was in town; it was time to go over the ... They sent high-dollar lawyers to represent Brown in court, hatched plots to break him out of jail, but the real question was whether to ...

On October 16, 1859, John Brown led 21 men on an assault at Harpers Ferry -- an event that shook the nation and [nudged it even closer toward civil war]. Among these raiders were five black men ...

John Brown's plan seemed fairly straightforward: he and his men would establish a base in the Blue Ridge Mountains from which they would assist runaway slaves and launch attacks on slaveholders.

Address of John Brown to the Virginia Court at Charles Town, Virginia on November 2, 1859 I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have ...

John brown dedicated his life to the abolition of ... Before hearing his sentence, Brown addressed the court: ... I believe to have interfered as I have done, . . . in behalf of His despised ...