He was aiming to start a nationwide slave revolt, using weapons stolen from the arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
But he was arrested by Colonel Robert E. Lee.
The sons of John Brown helped him in his attempt to start a revolution among the slaves.
John Brown was a white abolitionist. John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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he invaded Harper's ferry to start a riot
John Brown's most famous raid was on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. He tried to start a revolt among slaves in 1859.
John Brown was hung for trying to start a slave revolution, for trying to raid the arsenal in Harper's Fairy, and for killing 4 pro-slavery people
To start a slave revolt.
John Brown planned to steal weapons from where they were being stored for the war in Harpers Ferry and distribute them to slaves and start a slave rebellion. Obviously John Brown was an abolitionist and believed that slavery was wrong and wanted to end it.
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