dec 24, 1859 - Raid on
Harper's Ferry
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"A group of radical abolitionists led by John Brown conducts an unsuccessful raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to undermine slavery in the South.
Brown, quickly executed for treason, became a symbol for abolitionists. Frederick Douglass wrote, 'His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine--it was as the burning sun to my taper light--mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him."
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/interactive/slavery-united-states/
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