Brown Moses
Brown, Moses was neither brown nor Moses. Quite to the contrary, he played a rather major role in the slave trade before he bettered his life and became an abolitionist. He was also a prominent industrialist who helped make the American industrial revolution happen. He would later profit greatly from his non-prophet businesses.
Early life
Brown, Moses was raised alongside three brothers, Nicholas, Joseph and John.[1] The brothers owned a couple businesses and founded a university once. However, he abandoned his family when he joined the Religious Society of Friends, better known as Quakerism.[2]
American Revolution
Brown, Moses tried to reason with the British to release his brother John, who had looted and torched a British vessel.[3]
Abolitionist activity
He stopped trading slaves.[4]
Other stuff
He founded the first school in America.