American abolitionist Jonh Brown was born on May 9,1800, in Torrington, Connecticut, to a deeply religious, antislavery farming couple named Owen and Ruth Brown. Soon after, the family moved to Ohio. He had devoted much time to reading and meditating on the Bible while moving to Ohio. Brown life was full of business failures in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York. John was an awkward, child who was close to his mother. She died after giving birth to a daughter, he felt very bad. He was just eight years old when she died. As a youth, John saw a Negro boy who was badly beaten. The experience seared the reality of slavery into his mind and emotions in a way he would never forget. .
In 1820, John married Dianthe Lusk in the Congregational Church in Hudson, Ohio. John and .
Dianthe had seven children. In 1832 Dianthe died, he had hired a housekeeper who brought along her sister, a large, quiet sixteen-year-old named Mary Ann Day. Brown started to like her, then he wrote her a letter containing a marriage proposal. They were soon married in June, 1833. His two marriage result with 30 children all together but only 20 lived.
Later in 1855, moved to Osawatomie, Kansas, five of his sons. They settled in Osawatomie and worked to keep Kansas from becoming a slave state. Brown's son Frederick was killed the village was burned. Brown left Kansas and returned to the east, where he planned to establish a post for freedom with slave territory. Brown had made a plan to overthrow slavery, He planned to establish one post in the mountain areas of Virginia then extend his plans to Tennessee and North Carolina. He would attract slaves to these spots of Freedom, armthem and instruct them for defense.
On the night of October 16, 1859, Brown and his followers march to Harpers Ferry, crossed the bridge, and then seized possession of the United State Arsenal. Brown was caught on October 18, 1859, imprisoned at Charlestown, Virginia, tried by the common wealth of Virginia, and hanged on December 2, 1859.