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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 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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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.