Raid Avenging angel

Samenvatting

John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry 1859 On October 16, 1859 John Brown led his small 'army' of bleeding 18 men into Harpers Ferry, Virginia. A veteran of 'Bleeding Kansas,' Brown intented to provoke a general uprising of African Americans and a revolt against slavery. Expecting local slaves join them, Brown and his men seized key buildings and fortified their positions. But they failed to escape the town in time, and at daybreak on October 18, a battalion of US Marines under Robert E. Lee stormed Brown's position. John Brown stood trial for threason, for murder, and for conspiring with slaves to rebel, and was hanged. The Harpers Ferry raid confirmed for many Southerners the existence of a widespread Northern plot against slavery, and escalated the tensions that led to secession and Civil War 18 months later. This book is a detailed military examination of the raid that helped spark the Civil War.