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John Brown--the martyr – Vintage Print

John Brown--the martyr, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1870. — antique lithograph
John Brown--the martyr, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1870.. Antique lithograph from the Civil War collection.

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Currier's title, "John Brown, the Martyr," frames the abolitionist as a figure of sacrifice rather than a violent raider. Brown led the 1859 raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm enslaved people and spark an uprising against slavery. He was captured, tried for treason, and hanged at Charles Town that December, and many in the North came to mourn him as a martyr to the antislavery cause. The print dates from about a decade after his execution, when the Civil War had turned his name into a rallying point.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by N. Currier, c1870.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1870.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3515
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,194 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174810

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