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Digital History: Harper's Ferry

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Read about the infamous raid on Harper's Ferry by John Brown and his band in 1859. His first plan had a chance of success thought Frederick Douglass, but the plan that was carried out was doomed from the start. See what John Brown was trying to accomplish, what went wrong, and what happened to him and his men.

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Concepts
abolitionists, secession, john brown, robert e. lee
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Additional Tags
guerrilla actions, slave insurrections, digital history, harper's ferry, john brown's raid on harpers ferry, execution of john brown, federal arsenal at harper's ferry, trial of john brown
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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