He was a man of action, not of discussions. He was an arden abolitionist. He led an attack on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 and his subsequent death before a firing squad made him a martyr of the antislavery cause and heightened animosities that contributed to the Civil War.
John Brown was an American abolitionist. Brown advocated the use of armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. He first gained national attention when he led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas crisis of 1856.
