Program recognizes more than 800 locations in the U.S. and Canada with connections to the Underground Railroad. Brown was the ...
Harper's Weekly Illustration of U.S. Marines attacking the firehouse which John Brown used as a fort during his raid on Harper's Ferry. PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans. His ...
HARPERS FERRY, W.Va.— Almost a 165 years ago, Abolitionist Leader John Brown raided the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry to make a stand against slavery and the “Voices of Harpers Ferry: Generations ...
HARPER’S FERRY, W. Va. (WCSC) - The raid on Harpers Ferry, an attempt to ignite a slave rebellion that would have a heavy hand in launching the Civil War kicked off 166 years ago. Abolitionist John ...
2009-10-31T15:02:09-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/5f7/20091031150229003.jpgClip: 150th Anniversary of John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry Clip: 150th ...
"When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a biblical uprising of millions of armed bondsmen, thus ridding the nation ...
2009-10-31T14:56:23-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...