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This Web Site is dedicated to Abolitionists John Brown and Granville Sharp John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan to arm slaves with the weapons he and his men seized from the arsenal was thwarted, however, by local farmers, militiamen, and Marines led by Robert E. Lee. Within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown's men had been killed or captured. Granville Sharp, (1735-1818), British Abolitionist. A member of each the first Anti-Slavery Society and the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded in 1787. |
