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Abolitionist John Brown

e antislavery cause and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the Civil War. Though he was white, as mentioned, in 1849, Brown settled with his family in a black community founded at North Elba, N.Y., on land donated by the New York antislavery philanthropist Gerrit Smith. Long a foe of slavery, Brown became obsessed with the idea of taking overt action to help win justice for enslaved black people (Microsoft Encarta 2000).

Although Brown failed to start a general escape movement among slaves, the high moral tone of his defense helped to immortalize him and to hasten the war that would bring emancipation.

On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown and several followers seized the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. The actions of Brown's men brought national attention to the emotional divisions concerning slavery.

In 1794, President George Washington had selected Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and Springfield, Massachusetts, as the sites of the new national armories. In choosing Harpers Ferry, he noted the benefit of great waterpower provided by both the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. In 1817, the federal government contracted with John H. Hall to manufacture his patented rifles at Harpers Ferry. The armory and arsenal continued producing weapons until its destruction at the outbreak of the Civil War.

Frederick Douglass saw the Civil War as the inevitable consequence of man's inhumanity

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