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9 de may. de 2024 · John Brown, militant American abolitionist and veteran of Bleeding Kansas whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 and subsequent execution made him an antislavery martyr and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War.
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
On the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act (1850), Higginson...
- Arthur Tappan
Arthur Tappan (born May 22, 1786, Northampton,...
- Abigail Kelley Foster
Abigail Kelley Foster (born January 15, 1811, Pelham,...
- Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
In 1855 he settled in Concord, Massachusetts, then an...
- Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker (born August 24, 1810, Lexington,...
- John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was a vigorous supporter of the Southern...
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Hace 3 días · In the history books, Brown is most associated with the armed raid on the U.S. Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia in 1859, for which he was convicted as a traitor and hung, but a visit to...
17 de may. de 2024 · Pottawatomie Massacre, (May 24–25, 1856), murder of five men from a proslavery settlement on Pottawatomie Creek, Franklin county, Kan., U.S., by an antislavery party led by the abolitionist John Brown and composed largely of men of his family.
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Hace 1 día · Tubman helped John Brown plan and recruit for the raid at Harpers Ferry. In April 1858, Tubman was introduced to the abolitionist John Brown, an insurgent who advocated the use of violence to destroy slavery in the United States.
13 de may. de 2024 · John Brown and his Men by Richard J. Hinton Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust The John Brown Invasion; An Authentic history of the Harper's Ferry Tragedy by Thomas Drew
Hace 5 días · But at least at the Harper’s Ferry National Historic Park, which covers pretty much all of the town and sites from Jefferson Rock from the 1700s and the national armory in the 1800s, including the pre-Civil War assault on that armory by John Brown to Storer College, a post-civil war school of upper education for all races, but predominantly black, that closed in 1955, to say nothing of a ...
Hace 1 día · Harpers Ferry is linked to several events in American history, and is best known for abolitionist John Brown’s raid on the Harpers Ferry Armory in an effort to start a slave rebellion across the South. During the Civil War, Harpers Ferry also changed hands several times due to its strategic location.
