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In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown attempted to raid a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia; Brown's objective was to seize weapons and foment a large-scale slave revolt in the American South. The raid failed; Brown was captured, tried for treason, and executed by hanging in Charles Town, Virginia, on December 2, 1859. [1]
Alexander Boteler's essay, "Recollections of the John Brown raid, by a Virginian Who Witnessed the Fight" (1883), [25] is followed immediately by the "Comment by a radical abolitionist", of Brown's biographer, Franklin Sanborn. [26] Boteler was interviewed by George A. Townsend ("Gath"), in the Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 May 1883, p. 1.
Stonewall Jackson and Jeb Stuart were among the troops guarding the arrested Brown, [3] and John Wilkes Booth was a spectator at Brown's execution. John Brown had originally asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, both of whom he had met in his transformative years as an abolitionist in Springfield, Massachusetts, to join him in his raid ...
John Brown's last speech, so called by his first biographer, James Redpath, was delivered on November 2, 1859. John Brown was being sentenced in a courtroom packed with whites in Charles Town, Virginia , after his conviction for murder, treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, and inciting a slave insurrection .
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — On Dec. 2, 1859, a well-known abolitionist was hanged. John Brown was known for his raid on Harpers Ferry. His advance on the town started on the evening of Oct. 16 ...
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) 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.
Here is an eyewitness account of how it unfolded. Times, unless otherwise noted, are according to a clock on the execution chamber wall at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility. MASK CHECK
By Jim Salter BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court was asked to halt the execution Wednesday of a convicted killer in Missouri after a federal appeals court ruled the lethal injection ...