On Dec. 2, 1859 this militant abolitionist was hanged for treason
[DOC] [TLE] John Brown - Dissident Liquidated by Agents of the United States ... [PAR] He was tried and executed for treason against the state of Virginia, murder, ... 
Brown's actions prior to the Civil War as an abolitionist, and the tactics he ... John 
Brown in 1846 holding the flag of Subterranean Pass Way, his militant .....