History of the United States I / Unit 14 USH1 2007 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Harpers Ferry
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The idea
John Brown was born in Connecticut in eighteen hundred and held that slavery was an unacceptable evil that must be purged by violence.
In practice
Brown telling abolitionists his plan, some funding it, and Frederick Douglass refusing.
Where people slip
Douglass found it suicidal. On October sixteenth, eighteen fifty-nine, Brown and eighteen armed men, Black and White, took the unguarded federal armoury at Harpers Ferry.
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