One night in May, 1858, Franklin Sanborn called for a meeting at the American House Hotel in Boston. John Brown was in town; it was time to go over the plan. Much had changed in the year since ...

Osawatomie, Kansas Oct. 7, 1855 - John Brown arrives in Kansas. On May 24, 1856, he goes to nearby Pottawatomie Creek and directs his men in the murder of five proslavery settlers. 7.

In December, 1858, John Brown led a few men across ... and he needed to get them to Canada. Brown had been sent to Kansas by his Boston backers, the "Secret Six," while they raised money to ...

introduces Brown to influential abolitionists in the Boston area in effort to further antislavery fight in Kansas. These acquaintances will later constitute the members of the "Secret Six." John ...

During the summer of 1859, John Brown rented a farm in Maryland from the heirs of Booth Kennedy. A few miles outside Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), it was a good hiding spot for ...