"John Brown, the martyr," Currier & Ives, circa 1870. John Brown (1800-1859) was an American revolutionary abolitionist who led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 and the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859. Later that year he was tried and executed for treason, murder, and conspiracy. Print originally published circa 1870.

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