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As with everything John Brown did ... that the market would recover. Things only got worse. Creditors foreclosed and dragged him into court. Brown was found to be negligent and shortsighted ...
When her daughter, Mary Morgan Graves of California, found the children’s book “John Brown ... t readily admit they were related to Brown, but things have changed,” Graves said.
The Ravens added John Brown to their receiving corps this week at the start of free agency. Here are five things to know about Baltimore's new receiver: 1) He's a big-play threat. Brown's greatest ...
JOHN BROWN’S singular life has been followed by a remarkable immortality. Two mad days at Harper’s Ferry, then the impressive spectacle of the execution; some striking things written and said ...
John Brown, who was born 200 years ago this month, is one of the great historical enigmas. What he did is beyond dispute. What we ought to think about what he did is more problematical. Shortly ...
DARGAN, Maryland -- The spears that John Brown ordered for his abolitionist army were fearsome, primitive things. Nearly seven feet long, the pikes had 10-inch steel blades made for slashing and ...
Of the day following John Brown ... as the Supreme Court found in Dred Scott vs. Sandford, the Black man “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Brown, who reviled that ...
The spears that John Brown ordered for his abolitionist army were fearsome, primitive things. Nearly seven feet long, the pikes had 10-inch steel blades made for slashing and impaling those who ...
On her way back to Willard's Hotel she found her carriage delayed by marching ... the war songs so popular those days, among them, "John Brown's Body," which contained the provocative words ...