John brown

Abolitionist John Brown leads 18 men in an attack on the Harpers Ferry armory. The raid to seize the weapons failed and Brown was captured, tried, and hung. At his trial, Brown said: “Now,…

John Brown (1800-1859), a white American abolitionist, was hanged for treason, murder and insurrection after his failed attempt to take over the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry to gain arms for a …

An article written by Elisa De Togni on abolitionists’ reaction to John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry

Plenty of famous folks were born here, but West Virginia was the site of several famous deaths as well.

John Brown daguerreotype c1846-47.

Tragic Prelude, John Steuart Curry's representation of Bleeding Kansas just before the Civil War. He painted this in the Capitol. Despite some unpopularity when he painted it 70 or 80 years ago, no one's painted over it.

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.

Many people realize that their states have state seals, state flags and state songs. Many are also familiar with their state flowers (in Tennessee for...