John Brown's plan seemed fairly straightforward: he and his men would establish a base in the Blue Ridge Mountains from which they would assist runaway slaves and launch attacks on slaveholders.

At first the raid went like clockwork ... He commands the approaches in and out of Harpers Ferry.… So the question is, why didn’t John Brown leave?" "He stayed and he stayed and it seems ...

In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (Video: Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day ...

In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (Video: Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day ...

Most historians concentrate on the social and historical events caused by the 1859 raid of abolitionist John Brown and his ...

poet Stephen Vincent Benet wrote in 1928. These words, which greet visitors entering the John Brown Museum at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia, serve as a reminder of the ...

I haven’t been to Harpers Ferry for about 20 years and forgot how much there is to see and do there. ... John Brown’s Raid At Harpers Ferry What You Can See During A Day Trip To Harpers Ferry ...

As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical events. It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s ...

Brown was a son of prominent anti-slavery figure John Brown. His father was executed in December 1859 for leading a raid on the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry in Virginia to expand the Underground ...