Watson Brown (abolitionist)
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Watson Brown was a son of the abolitionist John Brown and his second wife Mary Day Brown, born in Franklin Mills, Ohio. He was married to Isabell Thompson Brown, and they had a son Frederick W., who d
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Oliver Brown
Original burial site of Oliver Brown and seven others killed at Harpers Ferry
From October 16 to 18, 1859, American abolitionist John Brown attempted to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by raiding an armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The raid is frequently cited as o
Watson Brown (abolitionist)
…of his father's efforts to prevent Kansas from becoming a slave state. In 1856 he wrote his mother from Iowa. He participated in his father's famous raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia), sending letters to his wife Belle from the Kennedy farmhouse. He was killed during the fighting. The circumstances…
1897 illustration of U.S. Marines attacking John Brown's "Fort" on October 18
Artist Jacob Lawrence's conception of Brown trying to persuade abolitionist Frederick Douglass to join him in the raid on Harpers Ferry. Douglass refused, as he believed Brown would fail.
John Brown in 1859
1862 photograph of the Harpers Ferry arsenal; the "engine house", later called "John Brown's Fort", is on the left.