dec 2, 1859 - John Brown hung
Description:
Many people opposed the brutality of the abolitionist John Brown and the PottawatomieMassacre. Three years later, Brown left Kansas to begin a slave uprising at the federal armory
at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He was caught and hanged as a traitor to the United States.
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Date:
dec 2, 1859
Now
~ 166 years ago