John Brown First American Terrorist
John Brown John Brown was born on May 9th, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut. ... After Dianthe died in 1831, Brown married 16-year-old Mary Anne Day, by whom he fathered thirteen children. During the next 24 years, John Brown built and sold tanneries (Workplace where skins and hides are tanned), speculated in land sales, raised sheep, and established a brokerage for wool growers. ... Brown was entranced by visions of slave uprisings where the slave owners would pay horribly for their sins, and he pictured himself as commissioned by God to make that vision a reality. In 1855, Brown followed five of his songs to Kansas to help make a haven for anti-slavery settlers.