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Actual fact: many Americans do learn about John brown in school, some of us even learned about Nat Turner. It's downright common to learn about the Bloody Kansas affair as it was a major inciting incident of our civil war.
I wouldn't be surprised though if I only learned so much about this because I grew up in a northern state that was one of the primary hotbeds of militant abolitionism (Ohio). We were home to Brown, Grant, and Sherman. We also learned that the fugitive slave act was an act of outright southern aggression on our right to free our fellow humans from their barbarous cruelty. Unfortunately ths state's filled with dipshits flying the slavers' rag these days talking about a heritage that certainly wasn't ours.
I went to public school in Florida, and can tell you that neither of those names were ever brought to discussion. I only learned about John Brown from YouTube in my later twenties.
I went to public school in Florida and John Brown definitely came up in my history class. But that's probably teacher and/or school district dependent, a friend of mine grew up in Ocoee and did not learn about the Ocoee massacre in school.