The Pursuit of the End of Slavery

In 1837, at the Memorial Service for Anti-Slavery newspaper publisher Elijah Lovejoy, Brown made a public vow. This devotion to ending slavery and his Calvinist upbringing would eventually combine into a complete and utter certainty that he was predestined to bring about slavery's end. For example, Brown wanted to expand the underground railroad into what he called the subterranean pathway.