The 19th century African-American millionaire risked her life and helped bankroll John Brown's failed 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry. Shusheel Bibbs currently tours the country performing historical ...

Before the Raid: Gathering at the Kennedy Farm During the summer of 1859, John Brown rented a farm in Maryland from the heirs of Booth Kennedy. A few miles outside Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now ...

Harper's Weekly Illustration of U.S. Marines attacking the firehouse which John Brown used as a fort during his raid on Harper's Ferry. PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans.

On Oct. 16, 1859, fiery abolitionist John Brown and 21 fellow raiders attacked the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry in what was at that time Virginia, the largest slave-holding state in the Union.

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry amplified North / South tensions and is viewed by many as a contributing factor to the outbreak of Civil War, some even calling it the first shots of that conflict, ...

Summary "When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a biblical uprising of millions of armed bondsmen, thus ridding the ...

Of the day following John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859 — now understood by scholars and schoolchildren alike to be one of the precipitating events of the ...

Late on the evening of this day in 1859, John Brown, a fiery abolitionist, accompanied by 21 armed followers, entered the town of Harpers Ferry, Va., — now West Virginia — with the aim of ...

John Brown, who was born in 1800, grew up with a family who were anti-slavery. And in the 1850’s, he traveled to Kansas, with five of his sons, to fight back against the pro-slavery forces.

Next, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz on the 1859 Harper's Ferry Raid, which he details in his latest book [Midnight Rising]. Mr. Horwitz talks about the raid's impact on the ...

HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. (AP) — A Marine killed during abolitionist John Brown’s 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry is being honored with a monument.

Before the Raid: Gathering at the Kennedy Farm During the summer of 1859, John Brown rented a farm in Maryland from the heirs of Booth Kennedy. A few miles outside Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now ...