John Brown was executed by hanging on December 2, 1859, for his role in leading an armed insurrection against slavery in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His execution was carried out by the state of Virginia, specifically the authorities and officials involved in the legal proceedings against him. There were no individual assassins; rather, he was sentenced to death for his actions during the raid on the federal armory.
John Brown was an extreme abolitionist who was angered by slavery and killed 5 of his own pro-slavery neighbors at gunpoint.
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The hung John Brown in 1859.
It was a retaliation for the burning of the town of Lawrence by the southerners settlers.
John Brown killed about five or four pro-slavery people.
John Brown killed 7 innocent people in the raid of Harper ferry
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John Brown came to the Kansas Territory to fight slavery. In May 1856 John Brown led a group that killed several proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek.
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he killed proslavery settlers
Ossawatomie, Kansas.
John Brown was an extreme abolitionist who was angered by slavery and killed 5 of his own pro-slavery neighbors at gunpoint.
John Brown and his sons entered Lawrence, Kansas and killed people thinking they could stop the vote for slavery. They literally chopped people with hatchets and the newspapers had headlines of "Bleeding Kansas."
yes because he wanted slaves for they can rebel against their owners.he also killed five people that were not against slavery.
John Brown's immediate plan was to " strike terror in the hearts of the proslavery people." Then eventually he, his four sons, and two other men went to the Pottawatomie Creek, where they seized and killed 5 supporters of slavery.