He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his ... The raid ultimately hastened the advent of the Civil War.

Pp. xxvi, 166. Illus., 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 ...

Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton ... John Brown at Harpers Ferry, the election of Abraham Lincoln ...

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 ...