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A resolution remembering John Brown.
John Brown Remembrance Act.
Summary
This House resolution honors and commemorates the 225th anniversary of abolitionist John Brown's birth on May 9, 1800. The resolution recognizes John Brown's contributions to the antislavery movement, including his work with the Underground Railroad in Ohio and Massachusetts, his organization of armed resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act, his involvement in antislavery efforts in Kansas, and his raid on the Harpers Ferry arsenal in 1859. The resolution acknowledges the generational impact John Brown had on the abolitionist movement and his role in ending slavery in the United States.
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- May 20, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- May 20, 2025 Submitted in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 20, 2025
Mrs. Sykes submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
RESOLUTION
John Brown Remembrance Act.
Whereas American abolitionist John Brown was born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut; Whereas John Brown and his family rented a house in Akron, Ohio, between 1844 and 1854; Whereas John Brown worked in Akron in business with Colonel Simon Perkins, the son of Akron’s founder, on a wool farm; Whereas John Brown harbored escaped slaves in his Akron home on their journey north on the Underground Railroad; Whereas John Brown used his wool warehouse in Springfield, Massachusetts, as a station for the Underground Railroad; Whereas John Brown taught escaped slaves and freed men farming; Whereas John Brown used his wool business to travel and conduct antislavery activity; Whereas, in response to the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, John Brown organized a group called the League of Gileadites in Springfield, which he encouraged African Americans to train in arms to fight against the Fugitive Slave Law; Whereas, in 1855, John Brown traveled with his sons to Kansas to assist antislavery forces fighting to ensure the Kansas territory would become a free-State; and Whereas, from October 16 to 18, 1859, John Brown initiated a slave revolt and captured the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) honors and commemorates the 225th anniversary of John Brown’s birth; and
(2) recognizes the generational impact that John Brown had on the abolitionist movement and his contributions to ending slavery in the United States. <all>
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