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  2. John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry - Wikipedia

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    John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry [nb 1] was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia). It has been called the dress rehearsal for the American Civil War. [3]: 5

  3. John Brown's raiders - Wikipedia

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    ¶ John Anthony Copeland Jr. was a free black man who joined John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. He was captured during the raid and was executed [27] 16 December 1859. The book, The "Colored Hero" of Harpers Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War against Slavery, was published in 2015. [8] There is a cenotaph memorial in Oberlin, Ohio.

  4. John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia

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    John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War.First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.

  5. Battle of Harpers Ferry - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Harpers Ferry was fought September 12–15, 1862, as part of the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War.As Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army invaded Maryland, a portion of his army under Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson surrounded, bombarded, and captured the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia).

  6. List of sources for John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

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    Captain John Brown of Harper's Ferry; a preliminary incident to the great Civil War of America. New York: A. Wessels. Joseph Barry's Strange Story of Harper's Ferry appeared in 1903. Barry says on the cover that he was "a resident of the place [Harpers Ferry] for half a century".

  7. AP United States History - Wikipedia

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    The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide the same level of content and instruction that students would face in a freshman-level college survey class. It generally uses a college-level textbook as the foundation for the course and covers nine periods of U.S. history, spanning from the pre-Columbian era to the present day. The percentage ...

  8. Eastern theater of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    McClellan requested permission from Washington to evacuate Harpers Ferry and attach its garrison to his army, but his request was refused. In the Battle of Harpers Ferry , Jackson placed artillery on the heights overlooking the town, forcing the surrender of the garrison of more than 12,000 men on September 15.

  9. Niagara Movement - Wikipedia

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    The movement's second meeting, the first to be held on U.S. soil and arguably the movement's high point, took place at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, the site of abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid. The three-day gathering, from August 15 to 18, 1906, took place at the campus of Storer College (now part of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park).