John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states...
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Geographic Names. It gained fame in 1859 when abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the Harpers Ferry Armory in a doomed effort to start a slave rebellion in...
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from John Brown's raid is the firehouse, now called John Brown's Fort, where he resisted the Marines. The American Civil War (1861–1865) found Harpers Ferry...
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Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry in 1859...
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The Harpers Ferry Armory, more formally known as the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, was the second federal armory created by the United...
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John Brown's Fort was initially built in 1848 for use as a guard and fire engine house by the federal Harpers Ferry Armory, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia...
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Shields Green (category John Brown's raiders)
escaped slave from Charleston, South Carolina, and a leader in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, in October 1859.: 387 He had lived for almost two years...
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On Sunday night, October 16, 1859, the abolitionist John Brown led a band of 22 in a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863...
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killed a man — and his father's raid on Harpers Ferry. He was the only son of Brown present in Tabor, Iowa, when Brown's recruits were trained and drilled...
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Dangerfield Newby (category John Brown's raiders)
the oldest of John Brown's raiders, and one of the five black raiders. He died during Brown's raid on the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. As...
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wrote his mother from Iowa. He participated in his father's famous raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia), sending letters to his wife...
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poem's title references the radical abolitionist John Brown, who raided the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in October 1859. He was captured and...
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October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859. It was later...
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"John Brown's Body" (originally known as "John Brown's Song") is a United States marching song about the abolitionist John Brown. The song was popular...
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all part of his raid on the United States federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. (Since 1863, both Charles Town and Harpers Ferry are located in West...
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not tried. Copeland joined John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry; other than Brown himself, he was the only member of John Brown's raiders that was at all well...
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Emperor (2020 film) (category Cultural depictions of John Brown (abolitionist))
freedom and participated in abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. In 1859, after the plantation on which Shields "Emperor" Green works in Charleston...
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at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia). Booth had been rehearsing at the Richmond Theatre when he read in a newspaper about Brown's upcoming...
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Virginia John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859) Harpers Ferry Armory, second federal armory (construction begun 1799) and site of John Brown's slave revolt...
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was the largest event of 1859 in the United States, exacerbating the polarization of the country, and was a major factor...
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
and got national attention, in the response to abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia), in October 1859. Black...
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Israel Greene (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
and the leader of the company of Marines that captured John Brown during his raid on Harpers Ferry. He later left the USMC and served as an officer in the...
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Heyward Shepherd monument (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
during John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. In 1918, the all-Black Storer College dedicated a plaque on its campus celebrating John Brown's raid. The United...
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Response to John Brown's Raid". In Finkleman, Paul (ed.). His Soul Goes Marching On. Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid. Charlottesville...
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Lewis Washington (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
most remembered today for his involuntary participation in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. He was taken as hostage and some of his...
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Albert Hazlett (category John Brown's raiders)
March 16, 1860) was a participant in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (October 16 to 18, 1859) and was executed on March 15, 1860, in Charles Town, Virginia...
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Secret Six (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
were a group of men who secretly funded the 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry by abolitionist John Brown. Sometimes described as "wealthy," this was true of...
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of a provisional constitution were found among John Brown's papers after his 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia. It called for a new state in the Appalachian...
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Lewis Sheridan Leary (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
African-American harnessmaker from Oberlin, Ohio, who joined John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, where he was killed. Leary's father was a free born African-American...
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Jeremiah Anderson (abolitionist) (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
establish a command center to prepare for the raid on Harpers Ferry. With him were John Henry Kagi, John Brown, and his sons Owen and Oliver. A local man...
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