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After the failure of Brown's 1859 attack on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, Redpath wrote a highly sympathetic biography of the executed abolitionist, The Public Life of Capt. John Brown (1860).
In 1859, Brown attempted to start a liberation movement among enslaved African Americans by seizing the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
John A. Brown, Jr., American murderer executed in Louisiana for the murder of Omer Laughlin
Len Chandler sang a song called "move on over" to the tune on Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest TV show.
John E.P. Daingerfield served as a clerk at the Harpers Ferry Armory in 1859 during John Brown’s raid.
It was there that Theodore Parker, of sainted abolitionist memory, had married the fugitive slaves, William and Ellen Craft; it was there that John Brown had lodged during his last trip to Boston.
The county's most notable abolitionist was John Brown, who moved to Osawatomie,making it the headquarters for he and his anti-slavery forces.
Along the same lines, some versions of the famous Civil War marching song "John Brown's Body" refer to John Brown's abolitionist activities in Kansas Territory during the same era.
Its most famous residents were the militant abolitionist John Brown, who resided at John Hunt Painter's house near Springdale while making preparations for the raid on Harpers Ferry, and Edwin and Barclay Coppock, local youths who participated with Brown during the raid.
In July 2009, The Black Seeds signed with American label Easy Star Records, then toured around America supporting John Brown's Body, before John Brown's Body came to New Zealand to tour with The Black Seeds in their home country.
The W&P was threatened during the events following John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and was a possible avenue for either an invasion into Virginia, or for a rescue operation of John Brown and other prisoners.
A Free State company under the command of John Brown, Jr., set out, and the Osawatomie company joined them.