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Contemporaries of John Brown - Hugh Forbes – Antique Wall Art

Contemporaries of John Brown - Hugh Forbes, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print
Contemporaries of John Brown - Hugh Forbes, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Contemporaries of John Brown - Hugh Forbes

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This portrait shows Hugh Forbes, an English-born soldier who had fought in Italian uprisings alongside Giuseppe Garibaldi before he crossed paths with John Brown. In 1857 Brown hired Forbes to drill and organize his followers for a planned slave insurrection, but the two quarreled over strategy and money. Forbes later revealed details of the plan to Senator William Seward in 1858, which Brown saw as a serious betrayal. The record does not give a date or confirm the printmaking method, but the figure belongs to the circle of abolitionist and militant activity that led to Harpers Ferry in 1859.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : (woodcut?).
NotesFinding aid available. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,052 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-107843

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