From Robert McNamara, your Guide to 19th Century History
The New York Tribune of October 18, 1859 carried a peculiar news report:
"A most extraordinary telegraphic bulletin startled the whole country yesterday — one importing that an Insurrection had just broken out at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and that it was the work of negroes and Abolitionists! The disbelief faded when it became known that the ardent abolitionist John Brown had indeed led a small band of free blacks and other followers to attack the federal... Read more
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