Author:John Brown (1800-1859)

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John Brown (1800–1859)

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An American militant abolitionist who was executed by the state of Virginia prior to the American Civil War.

For authors with similar names, see Author:John Brown.

John Brown

Works

• John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial (1859)

Works about Brown

• Victor Hugo's letter to the London News regarding John Brown, by Victor Hugo
• A Plea for Captain John Brown, by Henry Thoreau
• Brown of Ossawatomie, by John Greenleaf Whittier
• The Sentence of John L. Brown, by John Greenleaf Whittier
• Charleston Mercury editorial on Harper's Ferry
• Yorkville Enquirer editorial on the Harper's Ferry
• Cincinnati Enquirer editorial on Harper's Ferry
• Nashville Union and American editorial on the Harper's Ferry
• Richmond Enquirer editorial on the Harper's Ferry
• Richmond Whig editorial on Harper's Ferry

See also

• John Brown's Body, a Civil War Union marching song.
• The John Brown Song or Glory Hallelujah, by Julia Ward Howe
• Virginia Military Institute—Building and Rebuilding, Chapter X
• “Brown, John (abolitionist),” by Thomas Wentworth Higginson in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• “Brown, John (American abolitionist),” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911