My take on abolitionist John Brown, from the History Channel Club magazine and on-line.

More than 150 years ago, an already notorious abolitionist named John Brown convened a revolutionary group of blacks and whites inside a church in Chatham, Ontario. The ostensible purpose of the meeting was to form a Masonic lodge. But the real reason was to create a provisional government and adopt a constitution for a free black state that Brown hoped to create in the slave-holding Southern Appalachians...