Planning the Raid

Read the following accounts:

• The Account of the Chatham Convention by Dr. Martin R. Delany
• John Cook’s “Confession,” November, 1859
• "A Declaration of Liberty by the Representatives of the Slave Population of the United States of America"
• Thomas Wentworth Higginson to John Brown, May 7, 1858
• F.B. Sanborn to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, May 11, 1858
• John Brown to F.B. Sanborn, May 14, 1858
• Gerrit Smith to F.B. Sanborn, July 26, 1858
• Richard J. Hinton’s Interview with John Brown and John Kagi