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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Secret_SixSecret Six - Wikipedia

    The name "Secret Six" was invented by writers long after Brown's death. The term never appears in the testimony at Brown's trial, in James Redpath's The public life of Capt. John Brown (1859), or in the Memoirs of John Brown of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1878). The men involved helped Brown as individuals and did not work together or correspond ...

  2. www.thoughtco.com › the-secret-six-1773344The Secret Six, the Men Who Financed John Brown's Raid

    Feb 6, 2019 · The Secret Six were a group of northeastern abolitionists who provided money and support for John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. Learn about their backgrounds, actions, and the controversy they faced after the failed uprising.

  3. www.masshist.org › boston-abolitionists › john-brownJohn Brown and the Secret Six - Massachusetts Historical Society

    Learn about the abolitionists who supported John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, including five from Boston. See their portraits, biographies, and the context of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

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  5. www.pbs.org › features › brown-secret-sixThe Secret Six | American Experience | Official Site | PBS

    The Secret Six. One night in May, 1858, Franklin Sanborn called for a meeting at the American House Hotel in Boston. John Brown was in town; it was time to go over the plan. Much had changed in ...

  6. exhibits.tufts.edu › john-brown-and-the-secret-sixJohn Brown and the Secret Six | The Magnet and the Iron: John ...

    John Brown's Northern Supporters (Secret Six) Image courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection. In January 1857, a young Concord schoolmaster by the name of Franklin Sanborn welcomed fellow abolitionist John Brown to Boston.

  7. newenglandhistoricalsociety.com › samuel-gridleySamuel Gridley Howe, John Brown and the Secret Six

    In 1859, with John Brown imprisoned for the raid on Harper’s Ferry, attention turned to the question of who had helped him. Bostonian Samuel Gridley Howe and five of his friends — the Secret Six — were nervous. Sanborn, Stearns, Higginson, Smith, Howe and Parker (L-R). Today, Howe ’s wife Julia Ward Howe is better known to history lovers.

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  9. www.amazon.com › Secret-Six-Edward-J-Renehan › dpThe Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with ...

    Mar 1, 1997 · "Renehan admirably works himself into the inner circle of these would-be conspirators for good."―Garry Wills, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln at Gettysburg "In vivid prose, The Secret Six unravels the mysteries of the six prominent abolitionists who supported John Brown but abandoned him to his fate after the ill-starred raid at Harpers Ferry."―James M. McPherson, author of ...

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