John Brown The Abolitionist 1859

In 1775 the Pennsylvania Abolition Society was the first formal American anti-slavery organization. John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades proceeding the American Civil War. He believed that violent insurrection was the only way to end Slavery in the United States. In 1859 John Brown led a band of abolitionist in a raid on the Federal Armory Arsenal at Harper's Ferry Virginia on October 16, 1859.