# John Brown — John Brown’s Body character guide

> John Brown in John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Benét.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Brown, Old John Brown

**First appearance:** 0004-prelude

## Who they are

The radical abolitionist whose raid on Harpers Ferry and execution frame the epic.

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