John Calvin Brown Jr.

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  Warmer temperatures will allow bacteria to multiply, says Jack Brown, PhD, a professor of molecular biosciences at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. However, if no one sneezes near you, and if you keep your hands away from your face and wash and dry your hands thoroughly immediately following class, you're not likely to get ill, he says.

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  The former federal Labor minister John Brown, from NSW, told ABC radio Ms Neal was a 'very difficult person' whose 'strange peculiarities' had damaged her husband's career.

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  Regarding John Brown: A Response to Tamara Nopper's "An Open Letter to 'White Anti-Racists'"
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  By Louis A. DeCaro Jr., author of Fire From the Mideast of You: A Religious Life of John Brown (NYU, 2002).
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  While I, like the editor of Race Traitor, also agree with Tamara Nopper's views, her paragraph regarding John Brown merits extensive criticism.
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  Secondly, as to Brown himself, there is no doubt that he approached the struggle with flaws both personal and ideological.He certainly imposed his own political ideas about the strategy of struggle upon black Canadian expatriates, for instance, some of whom resented the idea of fighting under the banner of the US as Brown insisted."Upper case" Black intellectuals sometimes isolate and identify this tendency in Brown as an aspect of white supremacist thinking.But from this biographer's perspective, I doubt it.John Brown was (to both his credit and his fault) generally insistent that his word be the first and last in any effort, whether in family, business, or in struggle against slavery.His own brother chided him from childhood concerning this "imperious" tendency, and he himself acknowledged it.
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  Nopper also says that Brown had "fucked-up views that Blacks were still enslaved because they were too 'servile.'" To borrow from her own phrasing, this is interpretation more than biography.
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  Brown indeed held strong opinions about the lack of militance in some quarters of the black community, especially among those living in the racist North.
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  Brown was apparently not sophisticated enough to realize that holding opinions about blacks made him a white supremacist, and that it was the epitome of "white" hubris for him to interact and collaborate with blacks from the standpoint of leadership.Of course, had he waited to be led by his famous black colleagues, it is doubtful that any of his militant pursuits would even have taken place.
  
  Furthermore, Brown hardly held that the enslaved "were too 'servile.'" Indeed, he assumed that the enslaved would rise up when appropriately armed, and then sought to do so.He had not only studied the record of enslaved peoples in world history, but had paid special attention to the record of historic and contemporary militant black efforts, including the Haitian triumph under Toussaint L'Ouverture.Indeed, Brown assumed and expected that enslaved black men and women would fight.
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  But her judgmental remarks about John Brown (and by implication the other "white" men who died with him in the effort) are inexact and "historically speaking," perfidious.Of course, I am not suggesting that Nopper owes her "gratitude" to Brown, or that she must otherwise pat him on the back in retrospect. (And I doubt that Brown himself would desire that.) But clearly, in her ideological world, "whites" are to be seen and not heard, and not speak unless spoken to.They are not even allowed to hold opinions and should accordingly "fuck off" if they do.Hers is a world where even John Brown is offensive.
  
  Indeed, contrary to what even appears to be a concession on her part, Brown did far more than illustrate the impotency of "moral persuasion" (known as "moral suasion" in his own time) as an antislavery weapon.In life he modeled a caring, principled ethos to which his entire lifestyle and family were committed, and for which they materially and socially sacrificed a great deal.Ultimately, Brown and three sons gave up literally everything including their lives in an attempt to both oppose chattel slavery and uplift the humanity of blacks in a unabashedly racist society.
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  Paternalistic white activists and resentful upper-case Black critics notwithstanding, one good John Brown is worth an army of righteously indignant commentators.

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  Wayne celebrated the New Year with former Federal Tourism Minister John Brown, former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Advertising guru John Singleton

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  CORRESPONDENCE WITH GOVERNOR HENRY WISE & JOHN BROWN
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  In late October 1859, after John Brown had been captured, Child initiated a fascinating correspondence with Virginia Governor Henry Wise and Brown himself about the Harpers Ferry raid.
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  In late October 1859, after John Brown had been captured, Child initiated a fascinating correspondence with Virginia Governor Henry Wise and Brown himself about the Harpers Ferry raid.
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  LETTER TO JOHN BROWN
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  REPLY OF JOHN BROWN
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  Enclosed is a letter to Capt. John Brown.Will you have the kindness, after reading it yourself, to transmit it to the prisoner?
  
  I and all my large circle of abolition acquaintances were taken by surprise when news came of Capt. Brown's recent attempt; nor do I know of a single person who would have approved of it, had they been apprised of his intention.But I and thousands of others feel a natural impulse of sympathy for the brave and suffering man.Perhaps God, who sees the inmost of our souls, perceives some such sentiment in your heart also.He needs a mother or sister to dress his wounds, and speak soothingly to him.Will you allow me to perform that mission of humanity?If you will, may God bless you for the generous deed!
  
  I have been for years an uncompromising Abolitionist, and I should scorn to deny it or apologize for it as much as John Brown himself would do.Believing in peace principles, I deeply regret the step that the old veteran has taken, while I honor his humanity towards those who became his prisoners.
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  Madam: Yours of the 26th was received by me yesterday, and at my earliest leisure I respectfully reply to it, that I will forward the letter for John Brown, a prisoner under our laws, arraigned at the bar of the Circuit Court for the country of Jefferson, at Charlestown, Va., for the crimes of murder, robbery and treason, which you ask me to transmit to him.I will comply with your request in the only way which seems to me proper, by enclosing it to the Commonwealth's attorney, with the request that he will ask the permission of the Court to hand it to the prisoner.Brown, the prisoner, is now in the hands of the judiciary, not of the executive, of this Commonwealth.
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  Virginia and her authorities would be weak indeed--weak in point of folly, and weak in point of power--if her State faith and constitutional obligations cannot be redeemed in her own limits to the letter of morality as well as of law; and if her chivalry cannot courteously receive a lady's visit to a prison, every arm which guards Brown from rescue on the one hand, and from Lynch law on the other, will be ready to guard your person in Virginia.
  
  I could not permit an insult even to woman in her walk of charity among us, though it to be to one who whetted knives of butchery for our mothers, sisters, daughters and babes.We have no sympathy with your sentiments of sympathy with Brown, and are surprised that you were "taken by surprise when news came of Capt. Brown recent attempt."His attempt was a natural consequence of your sympathy, and the errors of that sympathy ought to make you doubt its virtue from the effect on his conduct.
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  You accuse Captain John Brown of "whetting knives of butchery for the mothers, sisters, daughters and babes" of Virginia; and you inform me of the well-known fact that he is "arraigned for the crimes of murder, robbery and treason."I will not here stop to explain why I believe that old hero to be no criminal, but a martyr to righteous principles which he sought to advance by methods sanctioned by his own religious views, though not by mine.Allowing that Capt. Brown did attempt a scheme in which murder, robbery and treason were, to his own consciousness, involved, I do not see how Gov.
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  Even if Captain Brown were as bad as you paint him, I should suppose he must naturally remind you of the words of Macbeth:
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  REPLY OF JOHN BROWN.
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  .......... JOHN BROWN.

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  John Calvin Brown

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  John Brown was a driven man, an abolitionist who was relentless in his opposition to slavery.Ultimately, he justified violence as a means to realize what he considered the most noble of goals - the destruction of slavery.
  
  Like his Calvinist father before him, Brown considered slavery a moral blight.But unlike many other white abolitionists, Brown mixed easily with African Americans, prompting Frederick Douglass, the most famous 19th century black abolitionist, to write that:
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  In 1849, John Brown settled his family in the black community of North Elba in the New York Adirondacks.
  
  Six years later, Brown moved to the new territory of Kansas, which soon became a major pre-Civil War battleground.
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  On May 24, 1856, Brown led a party of militant abolitionists who slaughtered five pro-slavery settlers in Pottawatomie Creek.Brown claimed that he did not participate in the actual killings, but unapologetically approved them as justified payback for a pro-slavery assault on Lawrence, Kansas.For this act and for his defense of the "free soil" town of Osawatomie, Kansas, Brown became nationally renown to abolitionists and infamous to slaveholders.Soon after, a New York stage play, "Osawatomie Brown" heralded his feats.
  
  Subsequently, Brown, with funding from prominent abolitionists, raised a small paramilitary force.In January 1858, raiders under Brown's leadership liberated twelve slaves in Missouri, delivering them to freedom in Canada.
  
  On the night of October 16, 1859, Brown, now 59 years old, staged his final and most daring raid, an assault on the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), which housed an arsenal of more than 100,000 rifles and muskets.Calling his raiding force, the "Provisional Army," Brown's group of 22 men included three of Brown's sons, a fugitive slave and four free blacks.Brown's goal was to seize the arsenal, distribute the guns and muskets, mobilize anti-slavery forces, incite slave insurrections and organize raids against slaveholders across the South.
  
  Brown and his men initially took control of the armory, but within 36 hours, U.S. Marines under the leadership of future Confederate generals, Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart, stormed the facility, killed several of Brown's band and captured Brown and the remaining raiders. Brown and his men initially took control of the armory, but within 36 hours, U.S. Marines under the leadership of future Confederate generals, Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart, stormed the facility, killed several of Brown's band and captured Brown and the remaining raiders.
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  Brown was taken to nearby Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia) where he was charged on three counts: treason, murder and conspiracy to lead a slave rebellion.After a seven-day trial and forty-five minutes of deliberation, a jury found him guilty on all counts.The court sentenced Brown to death.
  
  On December 2, 1859, Brown wrote:
  
  I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."
  
  Later, that day, Brown was hung.By March 1860, six of his compatriots, having been tried and found guilty, followed Brown to the gallows.
  
  In life and even death, John Brown's image loomed large, particularly in the nineteen months between the October 1859 Harpers Ferry raid and the outbreak of Civil War at Fort Sumter in April 1861.The debate about the immediate and long-term meaning of the Harpers Ferry raid and Brown's legacy was loud, messy and intemperate.On the day of Brown's execution, church bells tolled in several northern cities and many abolitionists hailed Brown as a martyr (although some questioned his violent means).In the North, partisans (and newspaper editorialists) of the Democratic and Republican parties railed at one another, each accusing the other of promoting a culture of violence.Across the South, newspaper editorials vilified Brown, his raiders and his supporters, but disagreed about the consequences of Harpers Ferry raid for the future of the South and slavery.The language used to characterize Brown in newspapers - North and South, Democrat and Republican, abolitionist and pro-slavery -was rarely neutral or even-tempered.Depending upon the viewpoint, editorials used the partisan vocabulary of "saint," "crusader," "martyr," "madman," "devil, "lunatic," and "murderer."
  
  Decades later, Brown continued to evoke deep passion.Almost 22 years after the event, Frederick Douglass memorialized John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, proclaiming:
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  If John Brown did not end the war that ended slavery, he did at least begin the war that ended slavery ... blow was struck, the prospect for freedom was dim, shadowy and uncertain.The irrepressible conflict was one of words, votes and compromises.
  
  When John Brown stretched forth his arm the sky was cleared.The time for compromises was gone - the armed hosts of freedom stood face to face over the chasm of a broken Union - and the clash of arms was at hand.The South staked all upon getting possession of the Federal Government, and failing to do that, drew the sword of rebellion and thus made her own, and not Brown's, the lost cause of the century.
  
  Is Douglass right about the legacy of Brown's raid?
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  John Brown, 1800-1859 (Territorial Kansas Online at the University of Kansas)
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  John Brown's Holy War (The American Experience/PBS)
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  John Brown's Raid (Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War, a site constructed by an amateur Civil War and Confederate history buff)

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  Former Federal Tourism Minister John Brown gives some indication that he and fellow Board members may be taking notice of complaints when he acknowledges in "AdStandards News" that billboards may be a special case:
  
  They differ to other forms of advertising because they're permanent structures and people are forced to look at them constantly.People feel they have little control over what is shown on a billboard…
  
  However, as to community standards on s-xual matters, it seems John Brown thinks it's all in our dirty little minds and we're all a lot of wowsers, i.e., that the "community" has actually got it wrong:
  
  I'm staggered by the way some people can see s-xual innuendo in everything.I'm not sure why this type of complaint is becoming more prevalent, could it be that society has become more voyeuristic, and moralistic in their outlook, and it would seem, lacking in humour?
  
  Alison Abernethy, ASB Communications Manager, wasn't able to tell me whether these comments were made before or after John Brown "embraced" the community feedback.

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  The newly safe Labor seat was won by John Brown, the koala-hating Hawke government Tourism Minister who is remembered for inappropriate use of his ministerial desk.

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  Biographies of Czar Alexandre Pavlovich, Lieut "Birdie" Bowers, Sir James Simpson, Alves Reis, Joshua Poole, Viscount Alexander of Hillsborough, John Newton, Jean Henri Dunant, Martin Luther, Captain John C Brown, Bilney, Tyndale and Latimer, Profesor Arthur Rendle Short, Alfred the Great, Fletcher of Madeley, Lieut General Sir William Dobbie.

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