Mary Ann Day Brown
Videos
Mary Ann Day Brown was the second wife of abolitionist John Brown, leader of a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, who attempted to start a campaign of liberating enslaved people in the South. Married at
Mary Ann Brown (née Day), wife of John Brown, married in 1833, with Annie (left) and Sarah (right) in 1851
Sarah Brown in 1912, recreating the conditions of their trip to California. (Dress and covered wagon are replicas.)
John Brown's burial, Brown family farm, North Elba, New York, December 8, 1859. Note the boulder on the left.
John Brown (abolitionist)
Videos
John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the American Civil War. An evangelical Christian of strong religious convictions, Brown was profoundly influenced by the Puritan faith
Mary Ann Day Brown
…Mary Ann Day Brown (April 15, 1816 – February 29, 1884) was the second wife of abolitionist John Brown, leader of a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia), who attempted to start a campaign of liberating enslaved people in the South…
The house in which Brown was born, in Torrington, Connecticut, was photographed in 1896 and destroyed by fire in 1918.
John Brown's Tannery, in 1885
Wood engraving of the pro-slavery mob setting fire to Gilman & Godfrey's warehouse, where Elijah Parish Lovejoy hid his printing press