John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
1859 · Event
Brown seizes the federal arsenal to arm a slave rising; hanged within seven weeks, he goes to the gallows predicting the land will be purged 'with blood' — sixteen months before Sumter.
On these timelines: Slavery & Abolition, American Civil War, Master, USA
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