Main Narrative Page

This page will hold the story, connecting the manifest history of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and the subsequent trials and executions of the conspirators, with the latent history of life in the two Shenandoah Valley towns of Staunton, Virginia and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Possible narrative threads include the following:

• Background to the raid in Chambersburg, including: Frederick Douglass's visit to John Brown, life at the Kennedy Farm in Maryland,
• Portrait of Harper's Ferry, VA
• The raid, the fighting, the trials, the executions (the national story)
• Conspirators captured in Pennsylvania
• The role of the West Augusta Guard in Charlestown
• Other news, including the publication of Helper's Impending Crisis

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