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John Brown's raid, plus much more...
John Brown's raid, plus much more...
Item # 703967
November 08, 1859
NEW YORK TIMES, November 8, 1859
* John Brown's insurrection - invasion - raid
* Harpers Ferry WV - West Virginia
The front page has various reports on the Harper's Weekly insurrection as well as other items of collector interest.
Among the column heads are: "The Harper's Ferry Insurrection - Lecture by Rev. J. Sella Martin" "Capture of Two Slavers" being slave ships; "Indian Depredations--Battle at the Del Nofrtge" in New Mexico; "Siege of Brownsville - Defeat of the Townspeople by Cortina--Probable Surrender of the Place to the Marauders" "The Virginia Rebellion" "The Backer of John Brown" "Brown's Family" and other items.
Eight pages, a bit irregular at the spine mainly from disbinding, good condition.
background: The Harpers Ferry insurrection, led by radical abolitionist John Brown in October 1859, was a daring but ultimately failed attempt to ignite a widespread slave rebellion in the American South by seizing the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown, accompanied by 21 men—both Black and white—planned to distribute captured weapons to enslaved people in the area, sparking a revolution against slavery. However, the raid was poorly coordinated and met swift resistance from local militia and U.S. Marines, the latter commanded by then-Colonel Robert E. Lee. After a two-day standoff, Brown was captured, tried for treason against Virginia, and executed on December 2, 1859. Though the insurrection failed militarily, it sent shockwaves through the nation: many in the North saw Brown as a martyr for freedom, while the South viewed the raid as proof of Northern aggression and a looming threat to their way of life. The event deepened the sectional divide and is widely regarded as a major catalyst for the Civil War that followed just two years later.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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