He obtained enmity from the  south, as well as his common nickname, "ossawatomie," when he responded to a pro slavery raid in Lawrence with a raid of his own at Pottawatomie creek, where he killed five pro-slavery southerners.
In a 2006 issue of the American Historical Review, he was called "the most controversial of all 19th century Americans."  Stephen Vincent Benet wrote an epic poem about him, along with the rest of the civil war. He obtained enmity from the  south, as well as his common nickname, "ossawatomie," when he responded to a pro slavery raid in Lawrence with a raid of his own at Pottawatomie creek, where he killed five pro-slavery southerners. He would later be captured and hanged,  in the process lending his name to a Union marching song. This is, FTP, what man who led an abolitionist raid on  Harpers Ferry?
In a 2006 issue of the American Historical Review, he was called "the most controversial of all 19th century Americans."  
John Brown