{"id":512,"date":"2009-10-05T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:50:41","slug":"harpers-ferry-digital-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/10\/05\/harpers-ferry-digital-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Harpers Ferry &#8211; Digital Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-513\" title=\"Title Page\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/10\/john_brown_titlepg1-150x137.jpg\" alt=\"Title Page\" width=\"150\" height=\"137\" \/>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/deila.dickinson.edu\/slaveryandabolition\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slavery &amp; Abolition in the US: Select Publications of the 1800s<\/a>,\u201d a digital collection from Dickinson College and Millersville University, has several important resources on the Harpers Ferry raid. James Redpath, a reporter who strongly supported abolitionists, published <a href=\"http:\/\/deila.dickinson.edu\/slaveryandabolition\/title\/0095.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Public Life of Capt. John Brown <\/a>in April 1860. Redpath, who first met Brown in Kansas, \u201c[became] an avid promoter of the John Brown legend\u201d as historian David Reynolds explains. (He also published <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=bzYOAAAAIAAJ\" target=\"_blank\">Echoes of Harpers Ferry <\/a>in 1860, which you can find on Google Books). Franklin B. Sanborn was one of the \u201csecret six,\u201d who provided Brown with financial assistance during the 1850s, and he published <a href=\"http:\/\/deila.dickinson.edu\/slaveryandabolition\/title\/0110.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia <\/a>in 1885. Also available is abolitionist Richard J. Hinton\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/deila.dickinson.edu\/slaveryandabolition\/title\/0111.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Brown and His Men; With Some Account of the Roads Traveled to Reach Harper&#8217;s Ferry<\/a> (1894). Hinton met Brown in Kansas when he became involved in the fight against slavery.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.cornell.edu\/m\/mayantislavery\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection <\/a>at Cornell University also has material on Brown\u2019s raid, including Osborne P. Anderson\u2019s account \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.cornell.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=mayantislavery;idno=17864917\" target=\"_blank\">Voice from Harper\u2019s Ferry <\/a>(1861). Anderson, who was born to a free black family in Pennsylvania and attended Oberlin College, was the only African American who was not captured during the attack. The site also includes <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.cornell.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=mayantislavery;idno=17864405\" target=\"_blank\">other biographies <\/a>and several sermons (<a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.cornell.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=mayantislavery;idno=13851910\" target=\"_blank\">George Cheever <\/a>\u2013 Nov. 6, 1859; <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.cornell.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=mayantislavery;idno=13851911\" target=\"_blank\">James Clarke <\/a>\u2013 Nov. 6, 1859; <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.cornell.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=mayantislavery;idno=14852812\" target=\"_blank\">John Gregory <\/a>\u2013 Dec. 4, 1859; <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.cornell.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=mayantislavery;idno=13852110\" target=\"_blank\">Nathaniel Colver <\/a>\u2013 Dec. 11, 1859).<\/p>\n<p>You can also learn more about some of these authors on the People tab of the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9603\" target=\"_blank\">Harpers Ferry major topic <\/a>in House Divided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSlavery &amp; Abolition in the US: Select Publications of the 1800s,\u201d a digital collection from Dickinson College and Millersville University, has several important resources on the Harpers Ferry raid. James Redpath, a reporter who strongly supported abolitionists, published The Public Life of Capt. John Brown in April 1860. 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