Existing comment:
"You can weigh John Brown's body well enough,
But how and in what balance weigh John Brown?"
-- "John Brown's Body" -- Stephen Vincent Benet
John Brown, a Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other, helped precipitate the American Civil War with organized acts of violence against slavery in Kansas, Missouri, and Virginia.
"The Tragic Prelude", John Steuart Curry, Kansas Statehouse |