11/30/1859
John Brown wrote his last letter to his family from the Charlestown Jail where he was awaiting execution. He urged them to keep up the anti-slavery fight and expressed a supreme confidence that "our seeming disaster will ultimately result in the most glorious success." He was hanged on the morning of December 2, 1859. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation:
W.E.B. Dubois, John David Smith, John Brown: A Biography: A New Edition with Primary Documents (New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1997) , 213-214.