{"id":648,"date":"2010-12-06T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T21:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=648"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:13:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:13:59","slug":"osborne-perry-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/12\/06\/osborne-perry-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"1859 (Fighting for Liberty) Osborne Perry Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Osborne Anderson (House Divided)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sources<\/strong>
\nAnderson published his account of Brown’s raid in 1861 as \u00a0A Voice from Harper’s Ferry: A Narrative of Events at Harper’s Ferry<\/a><\/em>. Other important primary sources include James Redpath’s The Public Life of Capt. John Brown<\/a><\/em> (1860), Franklin B. Sanborn’s The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia<\/a><\/em> (1885), and Richard J. Hinton’s John Brown and His Men; With Some Account of the Roads Traveled to Reach Harper’s Ferry<\/a><\/em> (1894). Important secondary sources include Benjamin Quarles’ Allies for Freedom; Blacks and John Brown<\/a><\/em> (1974), Paul Finkelman’s His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid<\/em> (1995), David S. Reynolds’ John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights<\/a><\/em> (2005), and Jonathan Earle’s John Brown\u2019s Raid on Harpers Ferry: A Brief History with Documents<\/em> (2008).<\/p>\n

Places to Visit<\/strong>
\nYou can visit Harpers Ferry National Historical Park<\/a> in West Virginia and see John Brown’s fort<\/a> and the historic town. In addition, the\u00a0Kennedy Farmhouse<\/a> is only about 30 minutes from Harpers Ferry. The farmhouse, which became a National Historic Landmark in 1973, is\u00a0the place where Brown’s raiders launched their attack on Harpers Ferry.<\/p>\n

Artifacts<\/strong>
\nA number of institutions have one of Brown’s pikes in their collection, including the National Civil War Museum<\/a> in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Jefferson County Historical Society<\/a> in West Virginia, and the National Museum of American History<\/a>. In addition, the National Museum of American History has\u00a0“John Brown’s Sharps Rifle<\/a>” and another rifle<\/a> seized during the attack on Harpers Ferry.<\/p>\n

Images<\/strong>
\nThe slideshow below includes images related to Brown’s attack on Harpers Ferry in October 1859.
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Sources Anderson published his account of Brown’s raid in 1861 as \u00a0A Voice from Harper’s Ferry: A Narrative of Events at Harper’s Ferry. Other important primary sources include James Redpath’s The Public Life of Capt. John Brown (1860), Franklin B. Sanborn’s The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8651,3973],"tags":[156,8663],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighting-for-liberty","category-grave-crisis-1801-1861","tag-images","tag-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2816,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}