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John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid


John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid | American Battlefield Trust

On the evening of October 16, 1859 John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers...

John Brown's Raid (U.S. National Park Service)

On July 3, 1859, Brown arrived in Harpers Ferry, accompanied by his sons, Oliver and Owen, and Jeremiah Anderson.

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry - Wikipedia

an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at ...

Harpers Ferry Raid | Date, Significance, John Brown, & Facts

Harpers Ferry Raid was an assault that took place October 16–18, 1859, by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal ...

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry | October 16, 1859 | HISTORY

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia ( ...

Remembering John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

John Brown was an American Abolitionist born on May 9th,1800. Brown was a well-known figure from his abolitionist fighting in Bleeding ...

The Harpers Ferry Raid | American Experience | Official Site - PBS

Brown's real effect came in his failure at Harpers Ferry. His real meaning is in what happens after his capture." John Brown was taken to Charlestown, Virginia ...

The Portent: John Brown's Raid in American Memory

There on May 24, 1856, he and several of his family members murdered five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek. Vintage photograph of John Brown standing ...

Stories - Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (U.S. National Park ...

John Brown's Raid ... “I want to free all the negroes in this [slave] state ... if the citizens interfere with me I must only burn the town and ...

Harpers Ferry - PBS

On October 16, Brown set out for Harpers Ferry with 21 men -- 5 blacks, including Dangerfield Newby, who hoped to rescue his wife who was still a slave, and 16 ...

32c. John Brown's Raid - USHistory.org

On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion ...

The Abolitionist's John Brown | American Battlefield Trust

The raid on Harpers Ferry and the resulting execution of Brown was a major turning point in the American abolitionist movement, causing many peaceful ...

John Brown's Raid - Library of Virginia

On 2 December 1859, Brown was hanged in Charles Town. The Harpers Ferry raid confirmed for many Southerners the existence of a widespread Northern plot against ...

A Look Back at John Brown | National Archives

When Brown was hanged in 1859 for his raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, many saw him as the harbinger of the future. For Southerners, he was the embodiment of ...

John Brown's Raid At Harpers Ferry

During John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, Henry Alexander Wise, a Democrat from Accomac County, was governor of the state, while James ...

John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry | DPLA

The fallout from Brown's raid likely hastened the secession of slaveholding states from the Union, igniting the Civil War. The primary sources in this set ...

Introduction - Harpers Ferry: Topics in Chronicling America

John Brown and his “army” raided the Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in an attempt to create a slave uprising. Instead they were ...

Chapter 14: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

In the late evening of October 16, 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown and his followers attacked the federal armory, arsenal, and rifle factory in Harpers ...

John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry: Civil War West Virginia - YouTube

It makes perfect sense to start our video trip through West Virginia and Kentucky not only right on the geographic edge of our theater, ...

Legacy of John Brown's Abolitionist Raid Lives On, 165 Years Later

This week marks the 165th anniversary of John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry (in what is now West Virginia) in October 1859.


John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, originally Harpers Ferry National Monument, is located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.