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John Brown's grave, 1896. Note the figure atop the stone: speakers at the funeral spoke from there. John Brown arrived in upstate New York as part of a project funded by Gerrit Smith to assist Blacks in becoming property owners and thus voters, under New York State law at the time. To this end he gave away hundreds of 40-acre tracts of ...
"John Brown's Body" (Roud 771), originally known as "John Brown's Song", is a United States marching song about the abolitionist John Brown. The song was popular in the Union during the American Civil War. The song arose out of the folk hymn tradition of the American camp meeting movement of the late 18th and early 19th century. According to an ...
Plaque at John Brown's grave Ten were ultimately buried in 1899 in a single coffin on the John Brown Farm in North Elba, New York, according to a plaque there. They include 8 of the 10 killed during the raid itself.
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.
John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave. Spread over it the bloodstained flag of his song, For the sun to bleach, the wind and the birds to tear, The snow to cover over with a pure fleece And the New England cloud to work upon With the grey absolution of its slow, most lilac-smelling rain, Until there is nothing there
john brown aimed at human slavery a blow that woke a guilty nation. with him fought seven slaves and sons of slaves. over his crucified corpse marched 200,000 black soldiers and 4,000,000 freedmen singing “john brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave but his soul goes marching on!” in gratitude this tablet is erected the national ...
The last member of the Epps family, Lyman Epps, Jr., was the last person alive who had seen, as a young man, Brown's funeral and burial. He shared his recollections with an interviewer. [38] He died in 1942, aged 102. [39] [25] A marker at his grave was paid for by the John Brown Memorial Association. [40]
Salmon Brown, son of John Brown (of the song "John Brown's Body") is buried here, [1] as is Hartwell B. Compson (1842–1905), [3] who received the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Civil War. See also