John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry ...

He was tried for murder, treason, and inciting slave rebellion just one week after his capture and hanged six weeks after the raid. “Although dead,” says Frye, “Brown did not rest.” When John Brown ...

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 ...

It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s abolitionist raid in 1859, a key Civil War battlefield, and the meeting place for the Niagara Movement, a ...

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 ...

John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry ...