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During his trial, John Brown conducted himself with dignity, stating that his only desire was to free slaves. After he was hanged on December 2 1859, he became a martyr to the antislavery movement here and abroad. Several commemorative items were issued in Brown's name, including this lithograph, which portrays Brown as a saintly figure greeting a slave mother and child on the doorsteps of the Charlestown jail. | |||
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John
Brown Meeting the Slave Mother and her child on the Steps of Charlestown
Jail on His Way to Execution, lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1863,
after a painting by Louis Ransom Click
image to enlarge. |
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