John Brown's raid (1859)

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:aftermath John Brown tried and executed
inspired abolitionists
intensified sectional conflict
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:John_Brown's_raid_on_Harpers_Ferry
gptkbp:casualties 10 of Brown's men killed
17 people killed
7 others killed
gptkbp:commanded gptkb:Robert_E._Lee_(U.S._Army)
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Harpers_Ferry_National_Historical_Park
gptkbp:date October 16–18, 1859
gptkbp:depictedIn various books and films
gptkbp:followedBy John Brown's trial
gptkbp:goal initiate an armed slave revolt
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label John Brown's raid (1859)
gptkbp:leader gptkb:John_Brown
gptkbp:location gptkb:Harpers_Ferry,_Virginia_(now_West_Virginia)
gptkbp:notableParticipant gptkb:Owen_Brown
gptkb:John_Anthony_Copeland_Jr.
gptkb:William_Thompson
gptkb:Watson_Brown
gptkb:Albert_Hazlett
gptkb:Dangerfield_Newby
gptkb:Dauphin_Thompson
gptkb:Edwin_Coppoc
gptkb:John_E._Cook
gptkb:Lewis_Sheridan_Leary
gptkb:Osborne_Perry_Anderson
gptkb:Shields_Green
gptkb:Stewart_Taylor
gptkb:William_H._Leeman
gptkb:Lewis_Leary
gptkb:Barclay_Coppoc
gptkb:Aaron_Dwight_Stevens
gptkb:Charles_Plummer_Tidd
gptkb:Francis_Jackson_Merriam
gptkb:Jeremiah_G._Anderson
Henry David Thoreau (supporter, not present)
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:United_States_Marines
gptkbp:participants John Brown's followers
gptkbp:precededBy planning in Canada and the North
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:American_Civil_War
gptkb:Slavery_in_the_United_States
gptkb:Abolitionism_in_the_United_States
gptkbp:result failure
capture of John Brown
execution of John Brown
gptkbp:significance increased tensions leading to the American Civil War
gptkbp:target gptkb:United_States_federal_armory_at_Harpers_Ferry
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Harpers_Ferry,_Virginia_(now_West_Virginia)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6