 As reported by the New York "Tribune", Brown stopped en route to participate in an anti-slavery convention that took place in June 1855 in Albany, New York.Despite the controversy that ensued on the convention floor regarding the support of violent efforts on behalf of the free state cause, several people gave Brown financial support.As he went westward, Brown found more militant support in his home state of Ohio, particularly in the strongly anti-slavery Western Reserve section where he had been reared.