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John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry, 1859
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry, 1859
Fergus Bordewich
October 10, 2009
00:38:20
This lecture commemorates the death of John Brown 150 years ago on December 2, 1859. John Brown was an American militant abolitionist leader, hanged for his raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia in October 1859.
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