John Brown (1800-1859) supported a violent form of abolitism, in the decades before the Civil War. He believed that only armed insurrection would end slavery in the US.
He knew about nonwhite cultures during his childhood and learnt to value them. He developed the belief that African Americans deserved freedom and citizenship in equal conditions. He leaded abolinist groups at some confrontations, but in the end he was dissapointed with the pacifism of the abolitionist movement that was spreading all over the country.