Owen Brown's Move West

Sophie: John Brown's family moved to Ohio when he was a we lad, which at that point was not called Ohio. He wrote with excitement that it was a quote wilderness filled with wild beasts and Indians. Young John used to hang about Indians as much as he could, the beginnings of a lifelong sympathy for natives That stood and stark contrast to the prevailing hostility of white Americans. Sophie: We're seeing a guy here who's capable of at least transcending from an early age, capable of transcending the biases of his time to an extent.