Selasa, 12 September 2017

‘A Moment Full of Peril’

When John Brown seized Harpers Ferry and threatened to spark a slave insurrection, officials in Washington concluded only one man could stop him: Colonel Robert E. Lee. Depending on your source, John Brown’s 1859 Harpers Ferry raid was the prelude to or the catalyst of the American Civil War. Yet for the small group of …

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