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Stereoview of John Brown's Fort at Harpers Ferry, Circa 1870s, Photographed by Matthew Brady

Stereoview of John Brown's Fort at Harpers Ferry, Circa 1870s, Photographed by Matthew Brady

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Stereoview of John Brown's Fort at Harpers Ferry, Circa 1870s, Photographed by Matthew Brady

by Harpers Ferry, John Brown

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[John Brown ] Stereoview of John Brown's Fort at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brady, Matthew, photographer. N.p., ca 1870s. 6.25" x 3.5". Featured are three men standing outside of the one-story brick guardhouse with words "John Brown's Fort" painted over arched doorways. The building became famous as John Brown's refuge during his 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry. Expecting that thousands of slaves would join him, Brown stayed too long in Harpers Ferry. Upon hearing that Brown had taken hostages in the Armory, companies of armed militia came to encircle the building. Brown's group blocked the few windows, used the engines and hose cart to block the heavy doors, and reinforced the doors with rope, making small holes on the walls and through them trading sporadic gunfire with the surrounding militia. Between 2 and 3 there was "a great deal of firing", but Brown was inevitably captured. The raid on Harper's Ferry did not ignite spontaneous slave revolts throughout the South as Brown had envisioned, but his trial and later execution did agitate and polarize an already divided society and is often credited as the "dress rehearsal" for the Civil War. Very good condition.

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Stereoview of John Brown's Fort at Harpers Ferry, Circa 1870s, Photographed by Matthew Brady
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