1. John Brown, John Brown
“The Meteor”

2. Holy Crap!!

3. Who? From Torrington, CT Former Preacher Failed Businessman
Involved Pottawatomie Creek
Killed pro-slavery people

4. The Man Himself

5. The Plan Harper’s Ferry, VA Federal Arsenal Overtake the armory
Arm his group to free slaves and then arm the slaves

6. The Lower Town Today

7. The Raid Charlestown, VA Lasted 48 hours Town baggage master killed
Dangerfield Newby killed
Robert E. Lee stopped the raid

8. Casualty

9. The Trial 5 days Jury deliberated 45 minutes Guilty on all counts
Sentenced to death by hanging
Hanged Dec. 2, 1859

10. Death by Hanging

11. The Month in Jail Jailer found Brown fascinating
Northerners allowed to visit
His wife came to visit
Wrote 100 letters
Newspapers, editors, magazines, and family

12. You Know It

13. The Month Continued Wrote own epitaph Wrote his own legend
Argued his own case
Wrote his feelings on his hanging to his wife

14. Well, He Said It

15. The Letter
“I have been whipped as the saying goes, but am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster by only hanging a few minutes by the neck, and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of my defeat…”

16. Writes To Pass The Time

17. The Letter Continued
“…I love you dear, but I can’t wait to hang.”- John Brown
Brown was troubled and morbid during his time in jail

18. This Is The Result

19. Escape? Newspapers printed escape plans
Threats to break out Brown from his jail
Fears that Yankees would break him out

20. Damn Yankees

21. Southern Hysteria Brown had maps of the entire South
He had placed an x on certain towns
Found in a trunk in Maryland
Press spread the fear quickly

22. Scared?

23. Hysteria 2 Northern teachers in the South were tarred and feathered
A piano teacher in Tennessee was lynched as he was from Massachusetts
“Abolition emissaries”

24. This Doesn’t Tickle Now

25. The Prophetic Words
“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” –John Brown

26. Sacrifice For Good

27. The Societal View
Southerners made him a mass symbol for militant abolition
Even issued an arrest warrant for Frederick Douglass
Douglass fled to Canada

28. He Got Away

29. Brown’s Burial Buried in Elba, New York
Body shipped on a train to his wife
Every year, the John Brown Society meets at his grave for a lecture.

30. Body Singing

31. Burial 2
African-Americans in the North at that time made a pilgrimage to his grave site.
Some called him a martyr
Herman Melville called him “The Meteor”

32. The Branding Writer

33. Watch!!!