Réponse : John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist leader. First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, he was eventually captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferrypreceding the American Civil War. A man of strong religious convictions, Brown believed he was "an instrument of God",: 248 raised up to strike the death blow to American slavery, a "sacred obligation": 189 Brown was the leading exponent of violence in the American abolitionist movement: 426 he believed that violence was necessary to end American slavery, since decades of peaceful efforts had failed.Brown said repeatedly that in working to free the enslaved he was following the Golden Rule,as well as the U.S. Declaration of Independence, which states that "all men are created equal"
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