But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

Persuaded in part by Lane's abolitionist views, Alcott took a stand against the John Tyler administration's plan to annex Texas as a slave territory and refused to pay his poll tax.

* 1859 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.

* 1859 – John Brown, American abolitionist ( b. 1800 )

Douglass was acquainted with the radical abolitionist John Brown but disapproved of Brown's plan to start an armed slave rebellion in the South.

Strongly opposed to the abolitionists who sought to end slavery in the U. S., Booth attended the hanging on December 2, 1859, of abolitionist leader John Brown, who was executed for leading a raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry ( in present-day West Virginia ).

This impressive work was followed by a series of paintings of the lives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, as well as a series of pieces about the abolitionist John Brown.

* John Brown ( abolitionist ) ( 1800 – 1859 ), American who led an anti-slavery revolt in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859

* John Brown ( biography ), a 1909 biography written by W. E. B Du Bois about the abolitionist John Brown

* Virginia v. John Brown, trial of the abolitionist

* 1800 – John Brown, American abolitionist ( d. 1859 )

* 1720 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist ( d. 1772 )

In a speech delivered at Salem, Mass., on January 6, 1860, to raise money for the families of the executed abolitionist John Brown and his followers, Ralph Waldo Emerson calls Brown an example of true chivalry, which consists not in noble birth but in helping the weak and defenseless and declares that " Walter Scott would have delighted to draw his picture and trace his adventurous career ".

* December 2 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

* December 2 – John Brown, American abolitionist ( hanged ) ( b. 1800 )

* December 17 – John Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet and abolitionist ( d. 1892 )

* September 7 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist ( b. 1807 )

* October 19 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist ( d. 1772 )

** John Brown, American abolitionist ( d. 1859 )

* John Brown Russwurm, American abolitionist ( b. 1799 )

* May 24 – Pottawatomie Massacre: A group of followers of radical abolitionist John Brown kill 5 homesteaders in Franklin County, Kansas.

** John Brown Russwurm, an American abolitionist ( d. 1851 )

* October 7 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist ( b. 1720 )

In April 1858, Tubman was introduced to the abolitionist John Brown, an insurgent who advocated the use of violence to destroy slavery in the United States.

Tubman helped John Brown ( abolitionist ) | John Brown ( pictured ) plan and recruit for the raid at Harpers Ferry.

He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown.

After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, many prominent voices in the abolitionist movement distanced themselves from Brown, or damned him with faint praise.

Thoreau's speech proved persuasive: first the abolitionist movement began to accept Brown as a martyr, and by the time of the American Civil War entire armies of the North were literally singing Brown's praises.

She heard the rifle shot with which abolitionist John Brown was killed, in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

In 1837, Webster warned his daughter about her fervent support of the abolitionist cause.

In the 1830s and 1840s, physical anthropology was prominent in the debate about slavery, with the scientific, monogenist works of the British abolitionist James Cowles Prichard ( 1786 – 1848 ) opposing those of the American polygenist Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ).

This letter became crucial in debates in Great Britain about the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade as the authorship of a purported indigenous African abolitionist.

Date accessed: 31 October 2006 .</ ref > The philanthropist and abolitionist MP Samuel Morley had a residence here from about 1860.

Eli Thayer, an abolitionist congressman from Massachusetts, believed that bringing abolitionists like himself into southern states could ultimately bring about the end of slavery.

A prominent radical abolitionist, Episcopalian, and Most Worshipful Grand Master of Freemasonry from Lowell and Boston, Massachusetts, Lewis became a Latter Day Saint about 1842.

During the 19th century, one of Brazil's greatest poets, the Bahian abolitionist poet and playwright Castro Alves, a native of the recôncavo city of Cachoeira, penned his most famous poem, Navio negreiro, about slavery ; the poem is considered a masterpiece of Brazilian Romanticism and a central anti-slavery text.

" John Brown's Body " ( originally known as " John Brown's Song ") is an American marching song about the abolitionist John Brown.

For a short time he became a noted abolitionist speaker and later a showman, but later lost the support of the abolitionist community, notably Frederick Douglass, who wished Brown had kept quiet about his escape so that more slaves could have escaped using similar means.

Furthermore, the Grimke sisters from South Carolina ( Angelina and Sarah Grimke ), received much abuse and ridicule for their abolitionist activity, which consisted of traveling throughout the North, lecturing about their first-hand experiences with slavery on their family plantation.

Furthermore, the Grimke sisters from South Carolina ( Angelina and Sarah Grimke ), received much abuse and ridicule for their abolitionist activity, which consisted of traveling throughout the North, lecturing about their first-hand experiences with slavery on their family plantation.

The gallery features information about figures including William Lloyd Garrison, an abolitionist ; Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad ; and Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became an abolitionist and orator.

He is a pioneer of the abolitionist theory of animal rights, arguing that animal welfare regulation is theoretically and practically unsound, serving only to prolong the status of animals as property by making the public feel comfortable about using them.

While in America he visited Mexico, Cuba and some of the southern states of the U. S. On this trip Schoelcher learned a lot about slavery and began his career as an abolitionist writer.

:"... a novel of near-biblical proportions about the abolitionist freedom fighter John Brown, is shaped like an explosive with an exceedingly long and winding fuse.

As the abolitionist movement gained force and escape programs for slaves such as the Underground Railroad expanded, concern about blacks heightened among some whites in the North.

While in Ireland the Dublin edition of the book was published by the abolitionist printer Richard D. Webb to great acclaim and Douglass would write extensively in later editions very positively about his experience in Ireland.

She allied herself with the cult of feminine sensibility, deploying it politically in opposition to war (" Ode on the Peace ", a 1786 poem about Peru ) and slavery ( the abolitionist " Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade ", 1788 ).

He wrote several biographies, including ones of Langston Hughes and Thomas Jefferson, and though most of his books are nonfiction, he wrote at least one historical novel, The Underground Man, about a white abolitionist in the 1800s United States who is imprisoned for helping escaped slaves.

In about 1779 the house was bought by the lawyer, philanthropist and abolitionist, William Roscoe.