Image Not Available for After John Brown's capture, he was put on trial for his life in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for Confrontation at the Bridge, from the portfolio "Not Songs of Loyalty Alone: The Struggle for Personal Freedom"

Image Not Available for For forty years John brown reflected on the hopeless and miserable condition of the slaves, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for For twelves years John Brown engaged in land speculations and wool merchandising. All this to make some money for his greater work which was the abolishment of slavery., from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for His ventures failing him, he accepted poverty, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for In spite of a price on his head, John Brown in 1859 liberated twelve negroes from a Missouri plantation, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for John Brown, after long meditation, planned to fortify himself somewhere in the mountains of Virginia or Tennessee and there make raids on surrounding plantations, freeing slaves, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for John Brown, a man who had a fanatical belief that he was chosen by God to overthrow black slavery in America, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for John Brown collected money from sympathizers and friends to carry out his plans, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for John Brown formed an organization among the colored people of the Adirondack woods to resist the capture of any fugitive slaves, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for John Brown held Harper's Ferry for twelve hours. His defeat was a few hours off, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for John Brown made many trips to Canada organizing for his assault on Harper's Ferry, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for John Brown remained a full winter in Canada, drilling negroes for his coming raid on Harper's Ferry, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for John Brown's first thought of the place where he would make his attack came to him while surveying land for Oberlin College in West Virginia, 1840, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for John Brown's victory at Black Jack drove those pro-slavery to new fury, and those who were anti-slavery to new efforts, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for John Brown took to guerrilla warfare, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for John Brown was found "guilty of treason and murder in the first degree" and was hanged in Charles Town, Virginia, on December 2, 1859, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for John Brown, while tending his flock in Ohio, first communicated with his sons and daughters his plans of attacking slavery by force, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for July 3, 1859 John Brown stocked an old barn with guns and ammunition. He was ready to strike his first blow at slavery, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

Image Not Available for Kansas was now the skirmish ground of the Civil War, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"

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Image Not Available for Sunday, October 16, 1859. John Brown with a company of 21 men, white and black, marched on Harper's Ferry, from the porfolio "The Legend of John Brown"