The objective was to steal enough weapons to arm slaves and start an uprising in Virginia
Virginia - in what is now West Virginia
The South identified Abolitionism with violent revolution.
Few black or white Americans were prepared to join a rebellion led by a fanatical abolitionist.
In October 1859, an abolitionist named John Brown tried to seize weapons from the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (now Harpers Ferry West Virginia). He and 21 men, one a fugitive slave, attacked the armory, intending to start a full scale slave rebellion in the South. Some were killed, along with one of the US Marines sent to stop them. John Brown was tried for treason, convicted, and hanged on December 2. The officer in charge of capturing Brown was US Army Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee, who 2 years later would resign his commission and become a leader of the Confederate Army in the Civil War.
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His intention was to secure weapons, arm the slave, and create a general insurrection.
The objective was to steal enough weapons to arm slaves and start an uprising in Virginia
Virginia
John Browns Raid took place in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
harpers ferry was a hub of trains and canals ,which provided escpe routes.
harpers ferry was a hub of trains and canals ,which provided escpe routes.
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Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Virginia - in what is now West Virginia
Because they thought he was trying to do the right thing
So that the slave owners would a lesson on keeping slaves