Throughout the years of my life, I have been known by many other names, Nelson Hawkins, Isaac Smith, Old Osawatomie Brown, Old Man Brown, Captain Brown, but mostly alone. I'm John Brown. You can call me a “radical abolitionist,” for my commitment to ending slavery. Others call me persistent. I have never been a quitter, I have come as far as I can to achieve my goals. My most famous words were the last ones; “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be done away with, but with blood. Now I had as I think; in vain did I flatter myself about this without bloodshed; it could be done. It means that our country, America, has seen the sin and will never fully recover on its own, but with the war the wrongs of slavery will soon vanish. We will see peace as a country, but it may require sacrifices. I was born on May 9 in the year 1800. My family lived in Torrington, CT, but soon after I moved to Ohio, where I spent my young life. My first ancestors sailed to the Americas in the 1600s on the Mayflower. Many things have marked me since childhood. Onc...