John Brown and Harpers Ferry: A Small Town with an Outsized Impact on History | Get Out of Town

During their trip to Harpers Ferry, Laurita and Lauren explore the town's influential role in American history. They start with a side trip to John Brown Raid Headquarters in nearby Sharpsburg, Maryland where, on October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown launched a raid on the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry. As author and historian Dennis Frye explains, Brown hoped to capture the 100,000 weapons stored in the arsenal and use them in a war, which would free slaves in the south. U.S. Marines ultimately captured Brown. who was found guilty of treason and executed in the lead up to the Civil War. Today the event -- and John Brown's story -- lives on at the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.

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