[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 434 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 434

                      John Brown Remembrance Act.


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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

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                               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.
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