# John Brown — The Souls of Black Folk character guide

> John Brown in The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Brown, great awkward John

**First appearance:** 0003-i-of-our-spiritual-strivings

## Who they are

Abolitionist whose raid on Harpers Ferry is invoked as a symbol of radical resistance.

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