John Brown's plan seemed fairly straightforward: he and his men would establish a base in the Blue Ridge Mountains from which they would assist runaway slaves and launch attacks on slaveholders.
Brown had been convicted of multiple murders, treason against Virginia, and inciting a slave revolt in relation to his raid on an armory in Harpers Ferry. John Brown was an abolitionist who ...
maps, appends., biblio., index. $16.95 paper. ISBN: 1611215978 John Brown and the Coming of the Civil War John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry amplified North / South tensions and is viewed by many as a ...
The town's legacy encompasses everything from the days of Algonquian and Shawnee people fishing nearby to abolitionist John ...
Brown was a son of prominent anti-slavery figure John Brown. His father was executed in December 1859 for leading a raid on the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry in Virginia to expand the Underground ...
His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia ... The raiders were pinned down in the armory buildings. As shots rang off the walls, John Brown quietly ordered breakfast ...
As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical events. It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s ...