119 HRES 434 IH: John Brown Remembrance Act. U.S. House of Representatives 2025-05-20 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

IV 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 434 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 20, 2025 Mrs. Sykes submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 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

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.