JOHN BROWN: A LONGTIME FOE OF SLAVERY |

On Oct. 16, 1859, John Brown and 21 armed followers stole into the town of Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, (now West Virginia) as most of its residents slept.

The men among them, three free Blacks, one freed enslaved person and one fugitive enslaved person–hoped to spark a rebellion of freed enslaved persons and to lead an “army of emancipation�� to overturn the institution of slavery by force. To these ends the insurgents took some sixty prominent locals including Colonel Lewis Washington (great-grand nephew of George Washington) as hostages and seized the town’s United States arsenal and its rifle works.

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