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19 giu 2024 · John Brown, militant American abolitionist and veteran of Bleeding Kansas whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 and subsequent execution made him an antislavery martyr and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
31 mag 2024 · Harpers Ferry Raid, (October 16–18, 1859), assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal armoury located at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). It was a main precipitating incident to the American Civil War.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 giorni fa · African American efforts enshrining John Brown paved the way for Harpers Ferry to become a National Historical Park. More than 250 years after the first family settled the area, Jefferson County still boasts the longest established African American community in the state.
- Harpers Ferry National Historical Park National Park Service PO Box 65, 25425, WV
6 giorni fa · On the road to Lake Placid, New York you'll start to see historical signs making where the pre-Civil War abolitionist John Brown had some connection to.
2 giu 2024 · A single person with a fiery belief in a cause can alter the course of history. This is the story of John Brown whose attempt to end slavery by force brought America to a reckoning point.
14 giu 2024 · John Brown is most famous for his armed raid on the U.S. Armory and Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, but that was just one part of his crusade to abolish slavery. In 1837 he publicly dedicated his life to the end of slavery.
6 giu 2024 · John Brown, oil on canvas by John Steuart Curry, 1939. Three days after the Sack of Lawrence, an antislavery band led by John Brown retaliated in the Pottawatomie Massacre. After the attack Brown’s name evoked fear and rage in slavery apologists in Kansas.
