John Brown led a righteous crusade against slavery, born of religious conviction -- and carried out with shocking violence. ... ; The Film & More | Special Features | Timeline | Maps | People & Events | Teacher's Guide; New content © 1999 PBS/WGBH. Visit Your Local PBS Station PBS Home PBS Home Programs A-Z TV...
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In the winter of 1857-58, John Brown, who had been a leader in and a promoter of lawlessness during the troubles in Kansas--undertaken, as he himself confessed, for the purpose of inflaming the public mind on the subject of slavery, that he might perfect organizations to bring ... JEB Stuart At John Brown's Raid...
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John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist, and folk hero who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre ...
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harpers Ferry ; in many books the town is called "Harper's Ferry" with an apostrophe- s. ) was an attempt by...
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Colonel Robert E. Lee provides an eyewitness account of the raid that further separated the North and the South. ... John Brown's raid and subsequent trial inflamed the dispute between the country's abolitionist and pro-slavery factions hardening the lines that separated the North and the South.
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To suggest that the Harpers Ferry raid was an impulsive, ill-planned, or suicidal endeavor is to ignore the preparations which began ten and twelve years before the raid. John Brown had two criteria for his life's work: (1) it must aim at destroying the entire slave system, and (2) it must be successful.
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