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john Brown was a Northern activist who believed that an armed insurrection was the only way to eliminate slavery from the United States. Between his most famous actions, he was involved in what is known as Bleeding Kansas with events like the Pottawatomie Massacre, and is remembered for the capture of the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry in 1859, where he was captured and sentenced to death.