John Brown

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Written By Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

  • Abolitionist

  • Twenty kids

  • Was asked to help drive away Native Americans and answered “I will have nothing to do with so mean an act. I would sooner take my gun and help drive you out of the country.”

  • Participated in the Underground Railroad

  • Led the raid at Harpers Ferry, planning to arm enslaved people; all were captured or killed

  • Sixteen people were killed, including one of his sons and nine other of his men

  • He said to his son Oliver: “If you die, you die in a good cause, fighting for liberty. If you must die, die like a man.”

  • First person the U.S. government executed for treason

  • John Wilkes Booth attended his hanging

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Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

Heather isn’t a historian, an academic, or an impartial storyteller… but she has read more than one book about every U.S. president. Out of spite. She was dubbed America’s Preeminent Presidential Doodler by one of her favorite authors and she’s been repeating it ever since. When she’s not reading or doodling history books, she’s a freelance graphic designer and illustrator.

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