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John Brown’s Harpers Ferry Raid: What Happened and Why It Still Matters

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John Brown’s 1859 raid on the federal armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry aimed to ignite a large-scale slave revolt by seizing weapons and distributing them to enslaved peopl...

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The Harper’s Ferry Raid: What Happened, Why It Mattered, and Its Lasting Influence

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The Harper’s Ferry Raid of October 1859 was a small-scale armed incursion into the federal Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), led by the abolitionist J...

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