Legacy of John Brown’s Abolitionist Raid Lives On, 165 Years Later

This week marks the 165th anniversary of John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry (in what is now West Virginia) in October 1859. The deeply religious Brown was an ardent white abolitionist determined to bring an end to slavery. He thought his raid on Harpers Ferry — waged by a small, interracial army of nearly two dozen men — would inspire an uprising of enslaved people across…

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