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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown and his team launched a raid on a federal armory located in Harpers Ferry which was located in the ...

Brown also met with Frederick Douglass in August of 1859 ... John Brown's statements during his trial reached the nation, inspiring many with his righteous indignation toward slavery. The raid ...

ISBN: 1611215978 John Brown and the Coming of the Civil War John Brown ... and his movement to Harper's Ferry. The actual raid, on the night of October 16, 1859, began well. Brown's band of 22, ...

Brown was hung on December 2, 1859, for murder and treason ... that opened close to where the raid happened. “It’s interesting that, 5, 6 years after John Brown was here, the college opened ...

White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Based on true events.

In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va. He was later convicted of treason ...

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 ...