Harpers Ferry raid

GPTKB entity

Statements (52)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:aftermath John Brown tried and executed
increased national tensions over slavery
gptkbp:casualties 10 of John Brown's men killed
7 people executed after the raid
several townspeople killed
gptkbp:commander gptkb:Robert_E._Lee
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Harpers_Ferry_National_Historical_Park
gptkb:John_Brown's_Fort
gptkbp:date October 16–18, 1859
gptkbp:followedBy John Brown's execution
John Brown's trial
gptkbp:goal initiate an armed slave revolt
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Harpers Ferry raid
gptkbp:leader gptkb:John_Brown
gptkbp:location gptkb:Harpers_Ferry,_Virginia_(now_West_Virginia),_United_States
gptkbp:notableParticipant gptkb:John_Brown
gptkb:Aaron_D._Stevens
gptkb:Owen_Brown
gptkb:William_Thompson
gptkb:Watson_Brown
gptkb:Albert_Hazlett
gptkb:Charles_P._Tidd
gptkb:Dangerfield_Newby
gptkb:Dauphin_Thompson
gptkb:Edwin_Coppoc
gptkb:Francis_Jackson_Meriam
gptkb:John_E._Cook
gptkb:Lewis_Sheridan_Leary
gptkb:Osborne_Perry_Anderson
gptkb:Shields_Green
gptkb:Stewart_Taylor
gptkb:William_H._Leeman
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:United_States_Army
gptkb:United_States_Marines
local militia
gptkbp:participants John Brown's followers
gptkbp:precededBy planning by John Brown and abolitionists
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:American_Civil_War
gptkb:Frederick_Douglass
gptkb:Harriet_Tubman
gptkb:John_Brown
gptkb:Robert_E._Lee
gptkb:Underground_Railroad
gptkb:abolitionism_in_the_United_States
gptkbp:result failure
capture of John Brown
increased tensions leading to the American Civil War
gptkbp:significance precursor to the American Civil War
gptkbp:target gptkb:United_States_federal_armory
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:John_Brown
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5