USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -John Brown, who had previously been actively involved in the dispute in Kansas, and responsible for the Pottawatomie Massacre, became active once again. Brown had become a staunch abolitionist. By 1859 Brown believed he had a vision.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pottawatomie Massacre, (May 24–25, 1856), murder of five men from a proslavery settlement on Pottawatomie Creek, Franklin county, Kan., U.S., by an antislavery party led by the abolitionist John Brown and composed largely of men of his family.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ‘massacre’ brought out hundreds of armed men on both sides. Some of the Brown homesteads were destroyed by pro-slavers and at the end of August Osawatomie was burned by pro-slavery men in revenge for the killings.

Detailed explanation-4: -When Brown was hanged in 1859 for his raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, many saw him as the harbinger of the future. For Southerners, he was the embodiment of all their fears-a white man willing to die to end slavery-and the most potent symbol yet of aggressive Northern antislavery sentiment.

Detailed explanation-5: -John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist leader. First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, he was eventually captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War.