John Brown’s Death - Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Posted by: flyingmoose
N 39° 19.413 W 077° 44.457
18S E 263723 N 4356265
A monument celebrating the loss on the former campus of Storer College.
Waymark Code: WM14CNX
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 06/12/2021
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John Brown was an abolitionist who initiated a slave revolt in Harpers Ferry in October of 1859. This action is one many of the events that led up to the Civil War.
Here John Brown aimed at human slavery a blow that woke a guilty nation. With him fought seven slaves and sons of slaves. Over his crucified corpse marched 200,000 black soldiers and 4,000,000 freedmen singing "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave but his soul goes marching on!"
In gratitide this tablet is erected The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
May 21, 1932
For more about John Brown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown's_raid_on_Harpers_Ferry