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May 31, 2024 · Harpers Ferry Raid, assault that took place October 16–18, 1859, by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal armory located at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). It was a main precipitating incident to the American Civil War.
May 24, 2024 · John Brown became the first senator for the district of Kentucky some nine years before statehood, when Kentuckians made him their first choice for the US Senate, a body which twice appointed him president pro tempore; yet today he is largely unknown.
2 days ago · 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.
May 16, 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.
1 day ago · Here’s a good and unfortunately anonymous mini-biography of Benet, which concludes, “The measure of his achievement, however, is indisputably John Brown’s Body, a poem whose naîveté and conventionality in themes, techniques and viewpoints are raised, by the greatness of its subject and Benét’s devoted craftsmanship, to the level of ...
5 days ago · John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true and brave, And Kansas knows his valor when he fought her rights to save; Now, tho the grass grows green above his grave, His soul is marching on. He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few, And frightened “Old Virginny” till she trembled thru and thru;
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