"When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a biblical uprising of millions of armed bondsmen, thus ridding the nation ...
NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. In this book the author tells the tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war. Plotted in secret, launched in the ...
Brown's mantle has been claimed by figures as diverse as Malcolm X, Timothy McVeigh, Socialist leader Eugene Debs and abortion protesters espousing violence. "Americans do not deliberate about John ...
HARPER’S FERRY, W. Va. (WCSC) - The raid on Harpers Ferry, an attempt to ignite a slave rebellion that would have a heavy hand in launching the Civil War kicked off 166 years ago. Abolitionist John ...
She is a direct descendant of one of abolitionist John Brown's anti-slavery raiders who laid siege to the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry in a bloody 1859 assault that set the stage for the Civil War.
Program recognizes more than 800 locations in the U.S. and Canada with connections to the Underground Railroad. Brown was the ...
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The Raid on Harper’s Ferry - John Brown
It's time for a revolution. John Brown has used his funding from the Secret Six to collect guns and begin his guerrilla war against slavery. With the help of his sons, Shields Green, Louis Sheridan ...
It's time for a revolution. John Brown has used his funding from the Secret Six to collect guns and begin his guerrilla war against slavery. With the help of his sons, Shields Green, Louis Sheridan ...
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