John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.

American stage actor and assassin (1838–1865)

town in West Virginia, United States

American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)

United States Congressman and governor of Virginia (1806-1876)

United States marching song about the abolitionist John Brown

1859 effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states

American abolitionist and politician (1797–1874)

American politician (1798-1871)

2,500 acres at confluence of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland (US) managed by the National Park Service

former United States federal armory

poem by Stephen Vincent Benét

Union Army officer

abolitionist group