Brown was a son of prominent anti-slavery figure John Brown. His father was executed in December 1859 for leading a raid on the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry in Virginia to expand the Underground ...

Five of John Brown’s sons responded to the call, joining thousands of settlers heading west in search of a better future. But the Brown boys also went to stake a claim for liberty; they went to ...

John Brown was "Isaac Smith," a cattle buyer from ... wrote letters home. Brown's son Watson wrote to his wife: "I think of you all day, and dream of you at night. I would gladly come home and ...

The gravesite of Owen Brown, son of abolitionist John Brown, for more than a century a place of pilgrimage for abolitionists and a monument to the Civil War, appears to have been spared by the ...