click image for close-up This photograph of John Brown was taken in 1856 while the abolitionist was in Kansas, the same year he led an attack on a settlement along the Pottawatomie River in which ...

John Brown's obsession with ending slavery cast him as an abolitionist hero. In 1856, provoked by a bloody attack on Kansas settlers by “border ruffians,” Brown led a raid at Pottawatomie ...