by Tony Horwitz
Beallair estate
Beckham, Fontaine
Ben (Allstadt slave)
Berghaus, Alfred
Bible
Black Band of New York
Black Jack, Battle of
blacks. See also specific individuals
Brown seeks support of
citizenship rights and
Civil War and
education of
as Harpers Ferry raiders
Lincoln and
Martyr’s Day and
northern states exclude
population of Harpers Ferry and
recolonization and
Reconstruction and
stereotypes of
Blair, Charles
Blessing, John
“Blow Ye the Trumpet, Blow” (hymn)
Boerly, Thomas
Booth, John Wilkes
Border Ruffians
Boston
Brown hanging and
Fugitive Slave Act and
Brooks, Preston
Brown, Albert
Brown, Annie (daughter)
Civil War and
after Civil War
death of
death of Martha and
death of Stevens and
Harpers Ferry raid and
at Kennedy farm
Brown, Charles (son)
Brown, Dianthe Lusk (first wife)
Brown, Ellen (daughter)
Brown, Frederick (grandson)
Brown, Frederick (son)
Kansas raids and death of
mental problems of
Brown, Isabella “Belle” Thompson (daughter-in-law, Watson’s wife)
Brown, Jason (son)
Brown’s will and
Kansas and
Brown, Jeremiah (brother)
Brown, John
abolitionists and
aliases of
Americans choose sides over
Anderson’s tribute to
anonymous letter to Floyd on plans of
appearance of
arrives at Harpers Ferry
articles published by
autobiographical letter of
birth and early life of
blacks and
Blair forges pikes for
Booth and
B & O president and
capture and jailing of
Chatham Convention and
children and family of
Civil War as aim of
Civil War prophesied by
Cook reconnoiters Harpers Ferry for
death of children and
death of father and
death of first wife Dianthe and
death of mother and
death of son Frederick and
death of sons at Harpers Ferry and
Declaration of Liberty and
destruction of slavery as aim of
Douglass and
Emerson on
European trip and
failure admitted by
farming by
final letters of, and martyrdom
financial mismanagement and
first opposes slavery
first vows to carry battle to South
Forbes’s blackmail attempt and
free blacks and
fugitive slaves and
fundraising and speaking by
funeral of
Garrison and
Gideon as model for
guns first acquired by
hanging awaited by, and visits
hanging of
Harpers Ferry first targeted by
Harpers Ferry negotiations for surrender and
Harpers Ferry plan of, aided by John, Jr.
Harpers Ferry plan of, and preparations
Harpers Ferry plan of, opposed by family
Harpers Ferry raid and actions of
hideout of, today
hostages taken by
Howe hymn and
Hughes on
illness of
Indians and
Iowa recruiting by
Kansas free-staters and
Kansas raids by
Kansas recruiting by
Kennedy Farm and Chambersburg areas found by
Kennedy farm documents and
Kennedy Farm recruits and
League of Gildeadites and
legacy of
letters of
Lincoln and
marries Dianthe Lusk
marries Mary Day
Mary’s illness and
Mary visits, before hanging
memory of, in Harpers Ferry
mental state of
military strategies of
Missouri raids by
Moses as model for
moves to North Elba
moves to Pennsylvania
pacifism and
personality of
phrenology and
religion and Bible and
remains of
rescue of, feared in Virginia
Sacred Instrument of
Samson as model for
Sanborn and
Secret Six and
son Salmon on intentions of
sons fight with
Southern crusade planned by, after Kansas
speech of, before sentencing
surviving sons of
Thompsons join crusade of
Thoreau’s defense of
tomb of
trial of
Turner revolt and
will of
wool trade and
Brown, John, Jr. (son)
Brown’s hanging and
Brown’s will and
early life of
Harpers Ferry support by
hunt for
Kansas and
mental problems of
sister Annie and
Brown, Capt. John (grandfather)
Brown, Martha (daughter-in-law, Oliver’s wife)
death of
Kennedy farm and
Brown, Mary Day (second wife)
abolitionist fund and
Brown’s early abolitionism and
Brown and sons’ remains and
Brown’s trial and
death of Oliver and Martha and
early marriage and family and
Emancipation and
Harper Ferry plans and
health of
Lee and
moves to California
moves to North Elba
visits Brown before hanging
Brown, Olive (granddaughter)
Brown, Oliver (son)
Harpers Ferry raid and death of
Kansas and
Kennedy farm and raid plans and
marriage to Martha
remains of
Salmon’s warning to
Brown, Owen (father)
abolitionism and
Brown in Kansas and
death of
Oberlin and
Brown, Owen (son)
Brown’s will and
Civil War and
death of
escape of
Harpers Ferry plan and
Kansas and
Brown, Ruth (daughter). See Thompson, Ruth Brown
Brown, Ruth Mills (mother)
Brown, Salmon (son)
on Harpers Ferry
Kansas and
Brown, Sarah (daughter)
Brown, Watson (son)
death of
Harpers Ferry raid and
Kennedy Farm and
Salmon’s warning to
remains of
widow of
Brown, Wealthy (daughter-in-law, John, Jr.’s wife)
Brua, Joseph
Buchanan, James
Buford, Jefferson
Burns, Anthony
Butler, Andrew
Byrne, Terence
Byron, Lord
Calhoun, John
California
Calvinism
Campbell, William
Canada
Cannibals All (Fitzhugh)
Case, Lora
Central America
Chambers, George
Chambers, Jennie
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Douglass meets with Brown at
Charlestown, Virginia
Harpers Ferry trials held in
Charlestown Independent Democrat
Charlestown militia
Chatham Convention
Chesnut, Mary
Chicago Press and Tribune
Child, Lydia Maria
“Civil Disobedience” (Thoreau)
civil rights struggle
Civil War
Brown’s hope to spark
Brown’s raiders serve in
black fighters in
Harpers Ferry raid as beginning of
impact of, on Harpers Ferry
outbreak of
Committee of Management
Compromise of 1850
Confederate Army
Confederate States of America
Conklyn, Charles
Cook, John
blacks and
Brown’s hanging and
capture of
confession of
hanging of
Harpers Ferry reconnoitered by
Harpers Ferry raid and
marriage of
trial of
Cook, Virginia
Copeland, John
Brown’s hanging and
hanging of
trial of
Coppoc, Barclay
Civil War and
escape of
Harpers Ferry raid and
Coppoc, Edwin
Brown’s hanging and
hanging of
Harpers Ferry raid and
recruited
trial of
cotton trade
“Courage” (Emerson)
Cromwell, Oliver
Cuba
Currie, Lind
Custis, George Washington
Dana, Richard Henry
Daniels, Jim
Davis, Jefferson
Davis, J. Lucius
Declaration of Independence
“Declaration of Liberty, A” (Brown manifesto)
Delany, Dr. Martin
Democratic Party
Dickinson, Emily
doughfaces
Douglas, Stephen
Douglass, Frederick
Brown’s arrest and
debates Brown at Chambersburg
Kennedy farm letters and
Lincoln and
meets Brown
speech at Harpers Ferry
Doyle, Drury
Doyle, James
Doyle, John
Doyle, Mahala
Doyle, William
Dred Scott case
Dunbar, Jennie
Dutch Henry’s Crossing
Emancipation Proclamation
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Epps, Lyman
Filibuster, The (play)
filibusters
Fillmore, Millard
Fitzhugh, George
Floyd, John
Forbes, Hugh
Forbes, John
Fort Sumter
Fouke, Christine
Fowler, Orson
Franklin, Benjamin
Frederick militia
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
free blacks
African resettlement and
Brown works Smith land with
Chambersburg and
Chatham Convention and
as Harpers Ferry residents
sold into slavery
Springfield, Massachusetts, and
Virginia laws on
Freedmen’s Bureau
Freemasons
free-soil movement
free vs. slave states
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
fugitive slaves
Brown family and
Civil War and
Kansas and
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Garrison, William Lloyd
Brown’s hanging and
founds AASS
Fugitive Slave Act and
on Harpers Ferry raid
pacifism of
Turner revolt and
“General Orders” (Kagi document)
Gettysburg Address
Gideon
Gill, George
Graham, Sylvester
Greeley, Horace
Green, Israel
Green, Shields
Brown hanging and
execution of
Harpers Ferry raid and
joins Brown’s recruits
trial of
Haiti
Hall, John
Harpers Ferry. See also Brown, John; and individual conspirators, landmarks, politicians, raiders, and soldiers
armory at, today
armory established at
Brown chooses, as target
Brown reveals plan for, to Douglass
Brown reveals plan for, to recruits
Brown’s negotiations for surrender and
Brown’s preparations for, at Kennedy farm
burning of, in Civil War
Civil War as Brown’s goal at
Cook reconnoiters
documents captured at, and conspiracy fears
Douglass speaks in, after war
fears of slaves and northerners after
federal troops storm
40th anniversary of raid in
Hughes on
industry in
legacy and aftermath of
Lincoln and
maps of
news leaks of raid at
Northern reaction to raid on
150th anniversary of
post–Civil War
raid and early fighting in
raiders captured or killed at
raiders escape from
raiders executed
raiders jailed and tried
Salmon Brown on debacle at
Storer College for blacks in
as symbol in civil rights struggle
Thoreau on
war secretary Floyd warned of
Harpers Ferry, Battle of (1862)
Harper’s Weekly
Harris, James
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hazlett, Albert
reburied at North Elba
trial and execution of
“Heroism” (Emerson)
Higgins, Patrick
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
Hinton, Richard
Hooff, James
Houston, Sam
Howe, Julia Ward
Howe, Samuel Gridley
Hoyt, George
Huffmaster, Mrs.
Hughes, Langston
Humphrey, Rev. Herman
Hunter, Andrew
Hunter, Henry
Indians
industrialization
interracial marriage
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall”
James, Henry
Jefferson, Thomas
Jefferson County, Virginia
Jim (coachman)
Jim Crow
John Brown Fund
“John Brown Song,”
Journal of Commerce
Kagi, John Henry (alias “Mr. Henrie”)
death of
Harpers Ferry raid and
Kennedy farm and
Kansas
Bleeding
Brown moves to
Brown recruits in
Brown’s raids in
calming of
free-staters vs. proslavery forces in
proslavery constitution and
proslavery legislature and
Salmon Brown and
Kansas Committee
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Kennedy farm
documents found at
raiders gather at
Kitzmiller, Archibald
Ku Klux Klan
Lafayette, Marquis de
Langston, Charles
“Last Days of John Brown, The” (Thoreau)
Latrobe, Benjamin
Lawrence, Amos
Lawrence, Kansas, sack of
League of Gileadites
Leary, Lewis
buried at North Elba
Leary, Mary
Langston Hughes and
Lee, Robert E.
background of
Civil War and
Harpers Ferry raid and
Mary meets
slavery and
Leeman, Lizzie
Leeman, William
Leslie’s
Letcher, John
Lewis, Meriwether
Liberator, The
Liberty Guards
Liberty Party
Lincoln, Abraham
assassination of
freeing of slaves and
Lindsley, Julia
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Louisiana Purchase
Lovejoy, Elijah
Luckum, Phil
Lusk, Milton, (brother-in-law)
Martin, J. S.
Martinsburg militia
Martyr’s Day services
Maryland schoolhouse
Mason, Mrs. James
Mason, Senator James
Massachusetts Legislature
Massachusetts State Kansas Committee
Mauzy, Mary
Melville, Herman
Meriam, Francis Jackson
Civil War and
escape of
Harpers Ferry raid and
Mexican War
Mexico
Mississippi House of Representatives
Missouri
Brown’s raid in
Kansas vote on slavery and
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Moby-Dick (Melville)
Monroe, James (professor)
Moses
Mount Vernon
Napoleonic Wars
Napoleon III
National Kansas Committee
Newby, Dangerfield
Harpers Ferry raid and death of
Kennedy farm and
reburied at North Elba
Newby, Harriett
New Mexico Territory
New York Herald
New York Times
New York Tribune
Nicaragua
Niger Valley Exploring Party
North Elba, New York
Brown home in
Brown funeral in
Harpers Ferry raiders reburied at
Mary Brown leaves
Northern Convention
northerners
attitudes of, toward slavery
Brown’s hanging and
Brown’s trial and
