Harpers Ferry in Retrospect

John Brown, 1859

How "appropriate" for our President to confer this honor: Anarchist Harriet Tubman is to become the first "homegrown terrorist" on U.S. currency.

She was co-conspirator in John Brown's raid on the Harpers Ferry armory for which Brown was tried for treason, murder, and insurrection. Found guilty, he was hanged. Brown and Tubman's attempted subversion culminated in a war accounting for more American deaths than in all other U.S. wars combined!


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