dec 2, 1889 - john brown hung
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Many people opposed the brutality of the abolitionist John Brown and the Pottawatomie Massacre. Three years later, Brown left Kansas to begin a slave uprising at the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He was caught and hanged as a traitor to the United States....Added to timeline:
Date:
dec 2, 1889
Now
~ 136 years ago