John Brown

EPISODE · Mar 29, 2016 · 14 MIN

John Brown

from Stories of Appalachia · host Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

In the summer of 1859, as the country was rapidly coming apart over the issue of slavery, a man slipped into the Appalachian town of Harper’s Ferry, Virginia under an assumed name and began preparing to spark a massive slave revolt. In the end, what was waiting for John Brown was not a revolution but […]

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