Article: Torrington

John Brown's birth-place at Torrington, Connecticut, ...
NYPL Digital Gallery;  January 1, 1934 ;     268 words ...

Article: Who Can Pass the John Brown Test?
Los Angeles Sentinel;  August 23, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Virginia in 1859. The "real" John Brown had an entire book written about ... Harriet Tubman, regarded this John Brown and not President Abraham Lincoln ... emancipator of her people. The real John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut on May 9, 1800 ...

Article: The story of John Brown.(Special Report)(advocate ...
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication;  March 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... This is the story of John Brown, who, more than any ... civil war. Even today, John Brown remains a controversial ... cold-blooded killer. John Brown was born on May 9, 1800 ... Owen and Ruth Brown of Torrington, Conn. He was brought ...

Article: John Brown Trial: 1859
Great American Trials;      700+ words ... ... arming Southern slaves, John Brown's trial and execution ... Certainly this was true of John Brown, born in 1800 to Yankee ... the family farm near Torrington, Connecticut, enough ... training as a minister. John Brown was a poor student ...

Article: John Brown
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...John Brown 1800-1859, American abolitionist, b. Torrington, Conn. He spent his boyhood ... Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown (1859, repr. 1969). See ... 1958); J. C. Malin, John Brown and the Legend of Fifty ...

Article: John Brown's Raid: Chapter 1 The Road to Harpers ...
U.S. History;      700+ words ... ... on October 16, 1859, John Brown electrified the nation ... Commander in Chief John Brown. He was the planner ... on slavery was born at Torrington, Conn., on May 9 ... from earliest childhood John Brown was taught the value ...

Article: John Brown remembered for his role in Black history
Michigan Chronicle;  March 4, 2003 ;     496 words ... ... 03-04-2003 In October 1859, John Brown and a group of 20 conspirators ... Brown was born May 9, 1800 in West Torrington, Conn. He married twice, fathered ... marched into battle to the tune of "John Brown's Body." History has recorded ...