Historian Dennis Frye comments: "Brown still controls his own destiny. He commands the approaches in and out of Harpers Ferry.… So the question is, why didn’t John Brown leave?" "He stayed ...

Pp. xxvi, 166. Illus., maps, appends., biblio., index. $16.95 paper. ISBN: 1611215978 John Brown and the Coming of the Civil War John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry amplified North / South tensions and ...

Historian Dennis Frye comments: "Brown still controls his own destiny. He commands the approaches in and out of Harpers Ferry.… So the question is, why didn’t John Brown leave?" "He stayed ...

The town's legacy encompasses everything from the days of Algonquian and Shawnee people fishing nearby to abolitionist John ...

Brown had been convicted of multiple murders, treason against Virginia, and inciting a slave revolt in relation to his raid on an armory in Harpers Ferry. John Brown was an abolitionist who ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Brown, and a ragtag group of 21 called “God’s Army” to raid the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va., in October 1859. The effort was an attempt to provoke a slave revolt in the Southern ...

Visitors to Harpers Ferry can see the ruins of the arsenal that John Brown hoped to raid, as well as John Brown's Fort on ...

Brown, the son of John Brown—one of America’s most prominent abolitionist leaders—was the last surviving member of the 1859 Harpers Ferry raid, a failed slave uprising led by his father that ...