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#11124 Crystal at John Brown’s Grave Stereo Card (Stoddard Photo
of Glen Falls, NY) of a adolescent girl reading the gravestone
memorializing John Brown. She rests her body against a wooden fence
that protects the burial site which also includes a large rock. $75
By the time he was 50, Brown was entranced by visions of slave
uprisings, during which racists paid horribly for their sins, and he came
to regard himself as commissioned by God to make that vision a reality.
In Aug. 1855 he followed 5 of his sons to Kansas to help make the state a
haven for anti-slavery settlers. The following year, his hostility toward
slave-staters exploded after they burned and pillaged the free-state
community of Lawrence. Having organized a militia unit within his
Osawatomie River colony, Brown led it on a mission of revenge. On the
evening of 23 May 1856, he and 6 followers, including 4 of his sons,
visited the homes of pro-slavery men along Pottawatomie Creek,
dragged their unarmed inhabitants into the night, and hacked them to
death with long-edged swords. At once, "Old Brown of Osawatomie"
became a feared and hated target of slave-staters.
In autumn 1856, temporarily defeated but still committed to his vision
of a slave insurrection, Brown returned to Ohio. There and during 2
subsequent trips to Kansas, he developed a grandiose plan to free slaves
throughout the South. Provided with moral and financial support from
prominent New England abolitionists, Brown began by raiding
plantations in Missouri but accomplished little. In the summer of 1859
he transferred his operations to western Virginia, collected an army of
21 men, including 5 blacks, and on the night of October 16th raided the
government armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry From there he
planned to arm the thousands of chattels who, learning of his crusade,
would flock to his side. Instead, numerous bands of militia and a
company of U.S. Marines under Bvt. Col. Robert E. Lee hastened to the
river village, where they trapped the raiders inside the fire-engine
house and on the 18th stormed the building. The fighting ended with 10
of Brown's people killed and 7 captured, Brown among them.
After a sensational trial, he was found guilty of treason against
Virginia and was hanged at Charlestown, amid much fanfare, Dec. 2,
1859. The stately, fearless, unrepentant manner in which he comported
himself in court and on the gallows made him a martyr in parts of the
North.
of Glen Falls, NY) of a adolescent girl reading the gravestone
memorializing John Brown. She rests her body against a wooden fence
that protects the burial site which also includes a large rock. $75
By the time he was 50, Brown was entranced by visions of slave
uprisings, during which racists paid horribly for their sins, and he came
to regard himself as commissioned by God to make that vision a reality.
In Aug. 1855 he followed 5 of his sons to Kansas to help make the state a
haven for anti-slavery settlers. The following year, his hostility toward
slave-staters exploded after they burned and pillaged the free-state
community of Lawrence. Having organized a militia unit within his
Osawatomie River colony, Brown led it on a mission of revenge. On the
evening of 23 May 1856, he and 6 followers, including 4 of his sons,
visited the homes of pro-slavery men along Pottawatomie Creek,
dragged their unarmed inhabitants into the night, and hacked them to
death with long-edged swords. At once, "Old Brown of Osawatomie"
became a feared and hated target of slave-staters.
In autumn 1856, temporarily defeated but still committed to his vision
of a slave insurrection, Brown returned to Ohio. There and during 2
subsequent trips to Kansas, he developed a grandiose plan to free slaves
throughout the South. Provided with moral and financial support from
prominent New England abolitionists, Brown began by raiding
plantations in Missouri but accomplished little. In the summer of 1859
he transferred his operations to western Virginia, collected an army of
21 men, including 5 blacks, and on the night of October 16th raided the
government armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry From there he
planned to arm the thousands of chattels who, learning of his crusade,
would flock to his side. Instead, numerous bands of militia and a
company of U.S. Marines under Bvt. Col. Robert E. Lee hastened to the
river village, where they trapped the raiders inside the fire-engine
house and on the 18th stormed the building. The fighting ended with 10
of Brown's people killed and 7 captured, Brown among them.
After a sensational trial, he was found guilty of treason against
Virginia and was hanged at Charlestown, amid much fanfare, Dec. 2,
1859. The stately, fearless, unrepentant manner in which he comported
himself in court and on the gallows made him a martyr in parts of the
North.
