Set Reminder2024-04-18 12:00:002024-04-18 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/how-history-unfolds-on-paper-choice-selections-from-the-eric-c-caren-collection-part-ix-21908 This ninth sale from Eric Caren's archives offers a bird's eye view of history from a printed, manuscript, and photographic perspective.
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[BROWN, John 1800-1859)]. The Liberator. Coverage of the imprisonment, trial, and execution of Abolitionist John Brown. Edited by William Lloyd Garrison. Boston: J.B. Yerrington & Son, 2 December 1859. Vol. XXIX, No. 48. 4pp., large folio (635 x 457 mm), old fold. THE HARPERS FERRY TRAGEDY. Contains front-page coverage of Brown?s attempted raid on Harpers Ferry as well as his impending execution. Brown?s unsuccessful raid on 16-18 October 1859 was an effort to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown was charged by a grand jury with treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, murder, and inciting a slave insurrection. He was sentenced to death on November 2 and was hanged on December 2 (the day this newspaper was published).