Charles Town, Virginia, during the trial of John Brown, October, 1859

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 27, 2008.

Depicted ContentHarpers Ferry Raid

Depicted ContentJohn Brown and his surviving raiders are taken to Charlestown, Virginia under heavy guard

Depicted ContentJohn Brown and his fellow prisoners are held at Charlestown pending trial before a Virginia court

Depicted ContentJohn Brown and his fellow prisoners are held at Charlestown, Virginia pending trial

Depicted ContentJohn Brown appears before a Virginia court for the first time

Depicted ContentJohn Brown stands trial in Charlestown, Virginia

Depicted Content The Commonwealth of Virginia sentences John Brown to death

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The Prison, Guard-House, and Court-House, Charlestown, West Virginia (The Prison is on the extreme left)

Source citation

Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 486.

Source note

Original woodcut appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper in November, 1859.

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