HARPERS FERRY, W.Va.— Almost a 165 years ago, Abolitionist Leader John Brown raided the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry to make a stand against slavery and the “Voices of Harpers Ferry: Generations ...
Harper's Weekly Illustration of U.S. Marines attacking the firehouse which John Brown used as a fort during his raid on Harper's Ferry. PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans. His ...
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Image source: Wikipedia Harper’s Ferry Day – There’s some serious (well, more serious than usual) pig roasting action going down at John Brown Smokehouse tonight. They are honoring “one of the most ...
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.
"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 ...
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Altadena gravesite of abolitionist Owen Brown added to US National Parks’ ‘Network to Freedom’ list
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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