John Brown's Hideout

10/30/2025

Colorized Diego Rivera 1933

10/21/2025

Cousins meeting for the first time! On Tuesday, Brian Evans, the great great grandson of John Brown, and Mary Buster, John Brown's great great grand niece and the great great granddaughter of Rev. Samuel and Florella Brown Adair, met for the first time. We were so privileged to have them at our museum!

10/21/2025

👀 Go check out John Brown Museum State Historic Site 👀

10/20/2025

Yep.

10/16/2025

October 16th 1859 twenty two men would enact a bold plan to disrupt the system of slavery in America. This plan had come to include seizing and controlling the armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia (Now West Virgina) as a starting off point for this campaign.

John Brown envisioned that after capturing the town, the men and new recruits would make for the mountainous region surrounding the town and use the underground railroad routes to send those who did not wish to fight northward.

This long and sustained attack on slavery as a system was to destabilize it. Not simply to have a slave insurrection but to make the slaveholders property insecure plantation by plantation county by county. Retreating into the natural defenses of the mountains and continuing to funnel those wishing freedom northward while mounting more attacks to the south.

Of these twenty-two men...

10 would be killed during or a result of the raid (Jeremiah Anderson, Oliver Brown, Watson Brown, John Henry Kagi, Lewis Leary, William Leeman, Dangerfield Newby, Stewart Taylor Adolphus Thompson and William Thompson)

7 were tried and executed (John Brown, John Cook, John Copeland, Edwin Coppock, Shields Green, William Hazlet, and Aaron Stevens)

5 escaped (Osborne Anderson, Owen Brown, Barclay Coppock, Francis Merriam, and Charles Tidd)

While failing to begin this south wide campaign of liberating slaves, their actions at Harpers Ferry would speed up the process of the southern states, leaving the union in the name of expanding slavery. Eventually leading to the Civil War or "One big John Brown raid on the south."

Their souls go marching on.

10/16/2025

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October 16th 1859 twenty two men would enact a bold plan to disrupt the system of slavery in America. This plan had come to include seizing and controlling the armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia (Now West Virgina) as a starting off point for this campaign.

John Brown envisioned that after capturing the town the men and new recruits would make for the mountainous region surrounding the town and use the underground railroad routes to send those who did not wish to fight northward.

This long and sustained attack on slavery as a system was to destabilize it. Not simply to have a slave insurrection but to make the slaveholders property insecure plantation by plantation county by county. Retreating into the natural defenses of the mountains and continuing to funnel those wishing freedom northward while mounting more attacks to the south.

Of these twenty two men...

10 would be killed during or a result of the raid (Jeremiah Anderson, Oliver Brown, Watson Brown, John Henry Kagi, Lewis Leary, William Leeman, Dangerfield Newby, Stewart Taylor Adolphus Thompson and William Thompson)

7 were tried and executed (John Brown, John Cook, John Copeland, Edwin Coppock, Shields Green, William Hazlet and Aaron Stevens)

5 escaped (Osborne Anderson, Owen Brown, Barclay Coppock, Francis Merriam and Charles Tidd)

While failing to begin this south wide campaign of liberating slaves their actions at Harpers Ferry would speed up the process of the southern states leaving the union in the name of expanding slavery. Eventually leading to the Civil War or "One big John Brown raid on the south."

Their souls go marching on.

10/16/2025

Too often, the abolitionist movement has been told through a white lens that centers figures like William Lloyd Garrison or Harriet Beecher Stowe, while denying, ignoring, or minimizing the agency of Black abolitionists who were the movement’s moral and intellectual core. In truth, it was formerly enslaved and free Black men and women—such as Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Henry Highland Garnet, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and David Walker—who transformed abolition from an abstract moral idea into a living political and spiritual struggle for human freedom.

10/15/2025

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10/15/2025

"That's a nice looking hoo haw...reminds me of spring break 2003."

- Cliff Cash

https://youtu.be/uOpa9HY2TkU?si=FrUkOireWb06_AVl

10/02/2025

Nat Turner 🗡

09/29/2025

25 places to go, see, eat, and other tourism attractions—largely centered on abolitionist John Brown—when visiting his hometown, Torrington, CT

09/29/2025

Diego Rivera's "John Brown in The Civil War" Panel from "Portraits of America"