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Slaves who fled risked the hardships of fugitive life, the danger of capture, and even the threat of death. Text with map, images and video clip.
Explore the farmhouse where John Brown's army gathered before the raid on Harpers Ferry. Images and QTVR.
This famous song is not about our John Brown -- at least not the earliest version.
Before he became the well-known radical abolitionist, John Brown was a business man -- and an unsuccessful one at that.
The history of the firehouse in Harpers Ferry where John Brown was captured. Includes QTVRs of the building and of Harpers Ferry.
Would new territories and states allow slavery?
John Brown called many places home, including Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York. Join in as the abolitionist criss-crosses the country. Flash with non-Flash version available.
Read New York and South Carolina newspaper reports on the outbreak of war in 1861.
Cincinnati and Chicago papers offer up their opinions on the Harper's Ferry affair -- and the looming conflict between free and slave states.
Excerpt from Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Correspondence between abolitionist Lydia Maria Child and the Governor of Virginia.
Excerpt from Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Edmund Ruffin makes a pro-slavery argument.
Harriet Jacobs describes how this legislation tears families apart.
Trace the intricate relations of the major parties, and the disappearance of the Whigs.
Evaluate forms of political protest and identify Brown's role in development of the Civil War.
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