John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
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John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
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White abolitionist in the head of slave revolt?
In 1859, just before the Civil War, John Brown, a white abolitionist, accompanied with his supporters, tried to initiate an armed revolt by taking over an arsenal in Harpers Ferry. Despite the failure, it was a truly symbolic action of denying slavery.
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