 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Kupamba kwake muna October 1859chaibatanidza boka revarume 22 avo vakatora nzvimbo yokuchengetera zvombo yeFederal paHarpers Ferry, Virginia kubvira muna 1863, West Virginia, vachiziva kuti yaiva nemakumi ezviuru zvombo. Brown aidavira kuti Maodzanyemba akanga ava pedyo nokumukira kukuru kwevaranda uye kuti chiedza chimwe chete chaizokuita kuti kumuke. Vatsigiri vaBrown George Luther Stearns, Franklin B. Sanborn, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Theodore Parker, Samuel Gridley Howe, naGerrit Smith vose vakanga vari vanorambidza kurambana, nhengo dzevanonzi Secret Six avo vakapa rutsigiro rwemari pakurwisa kwaBrown. Munyori wenhau dzakaitika David Potter anoti, kudenha kwaBrown kwakanga kwakarongwa kuti kuve kukuru zvikuru uye kuti pave nokumukira kwevaranda kwaizopandukira muSouth yose. Kurwisa kwacho hakuna kufamba sezvatakanga takaronga. Aitarisira kuti nokukurumidza aizova nehondo duku yavaranda vakanga vatiza, asi haana kuita gadziriro yokuzivisa ava vakanga vatiza, kunyange zvazvo akawana rutsigiro ruduku rwomunzvimbomo. Lt. Colonel Robert E. Lee weU.S. Army akatumwa kunoderedza kudenha kwacho, uye Brown akakurumidza kubatwa. Akatongwa nokuda kwokutengesa nyika kuCommonwealth yeVirginia, kuponda, uye kunyandura kupandukira varanda, akawanwa ane mhaka pamhosva dzose, uye akaturikwa. Pakutongwa kwake, Brown akabudisa kushingaira kunoshamisa uye kutsunga kwakashanda zvakananga pakutya kwakanyanya kwevanhu vokuSouth. Pasi pomutemo weVirginia paiva nomwedzi pakati pokupa mutongo nokurovererwa, uye mumavhiki iwayo Brown akataura nomufaro kuvatori venhau uye mumwe munhu upi noupi aida kumuona, uye akanyora tsamba dzakawanda. Vanhu vashomanene vakaita zvakawanda kukonzera kuparadzana kupfuura John Brown, nokuti vanhu vokuSouth vaidavira kuti akanga akarurama pamusoro pokumukira kwevaranda kwakanga kwava kuda kuitika. Pazuva rokuurayiwa kwake, Brown akaporofita kuti, mhosva dzenyika ino ine mhaka hadzisati dzichizotongotsvairwa kunze kweropa. Ndakanga ndazvirumbidza, sezvandinofunga iye zvino, pasina chikonzero kuti zvaigona kuitwa pasina kudeurwa kweropa kukuru. 