OnThisDay in 1859, American abolitionist

#OnThisDay in 1859, American abolitionist John Brow

n was executed for leading a raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia). The raid was intended to start a slave liberation movement that would spread through mountainous regions of Virginia and North Carolina. Brown was born in Connecticut in 1800 and became militant beginning in the mid-1850's, when he served as a leader of the Free State forces in Kansas and fought pro-slavery settlers. In 1859, Brown sought to follow up on the moderate success that he achieved in Kansas with a more ambitious plan. Brown and a group of followers raided the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry and brought 1,000 pike heads for enslaved African Americans to use for revolt. Brown was captured and executed. On the day of his execution, he wrote” “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.” Brown’s raid stoked the fears of white southerners. With one-third of the southern population held in bondage, whites lived in fear of another armed insurrection. 

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