Sentences with phrase «abolitionist raid»

In the service of economy, student texts on Civil War history usually sum up John Brown's famous October 16, 1859, abolitionist raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry by noting that Robert E. Lee, then a colonel commanding a modest squad of U.S. soldiers, was responsible for bringing Brown and his associates to bay.

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Film Review by Kam Williams Civil War Saga Chronicles Exploits of Confederate Soldier - Turned - Slave Revolt Leader While the slave raids led by Nat Turner and John Brown have been well documented in the annals of American history, the relatively - successful exploits of another notorious abolitionist insurrectionist have somehow slipped through the cracks.

This monumental, fictionalized version of the life of the mythic abolitionist John Brown is told by his son Owen, who survives the raid at Harpers Ferry with equal measures of anger and guilt.

And three days after the caning, abolitionist John Brown led a raid that killed five pro-slavery residents of Pottawatomie Creek.