page_title: John Brown (abolitionist)
section_title: Monuments
hierarchical_section_title: John Brown (abolitionist) / Legacy / Monuments
caption_attribution_description: English: John Brown Life size white marble statue (7 foot, 2 inch) with granite pedestal Location&#160;: Quindaro-Western University Historical District, Quindaro Townsite, Kansas City, Kansas Dedicated: Western University campus in June, 1911. Inscription: Erected to the Memory of John Brown by A Grateful People.
context_page_description: John Brown was an American abolitionist. Brown advocated the use of armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. He first gained national attention when he led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas crisis of 1856. He was dissatisfied with the pacifism of the organized abolitionist movement: "These men are all talk. What we need is action—action!" In May 1856, Brown and his supporters killed five supporters of slavery in the Pottawatomie massacre, a response to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery forces. Brown then commanded anti-slavery forces at the Battle of Black Jack and the Battle of Osawatomie. As Brown's son John Brown, Jr. told a visitor just before the raid on Harpers Ferry, "as only force and fire-arms kept slavery out a Kansas, so nothing else will overthrow it in the Southern States", the visitor adding that this was a belief "daily gaining adherents".
context_section_description: Kansas City, Kansas, at the Quindaro Townsite, 27th and Sewell: a pillar with a statue of Brown. Lettering reads: "Erected to the Memory of John Brown by a Grateful People". There is a bronze plaque. The long-abandoned town Quindaro was a major stop on the Underground Railroad. It was also the site of Quindaro Freedman's School (later Western University), the first (1865) black school west of the Mississippi River. In March, 2018, the statue was defaced with swastikas and "Hail Satan".
  At the John Brown Farm State Historic Site near Lake Placid, New York, on John Brown Road, is a larger-than-life statue of Brown escorting a black child to freedom. The artist was Joseph Pollia. Brown's tombstone is enclosed in glass. The bodies of some of the others who died with him were reburied there.
  The cabin he lived in while in Kansas is the John Brown Museum, also known as the John Brown Museum State Historic Site and John Brown Cabin. It is in Osawatomie, Kansas, in the John Brown Memorial Park. There is also a bronze statue of Brown, with a plaque.
  The wagon that carried Brown from jail to his execution is preserved by the Jefferson County, West Virginia Museum in Charles Town.
  An approximate replica of the firehouse was built in 2012 at the Discovery Park of America museum park in Union City, Tennessee. There is a marker explaining the link with John Brown's raid.
  Iowa has set up the John Brown Freedom Trail, marking his journey across Iowa leaving Kansas, en route to Chatham, Ontario.
  Lewis, Iowa: "Fighting Slavery – Aiding Runaways. John Brown Freedom Trail – December 20, 1858 – March 12, 1859."
  In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Avenue John Brown is a main street.
caption: Life-size white marble statue of John Brown in Quindaro Townsite, Kansas
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