Grade Range: 9-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & ActivitiesDuration: 90 MinutesDate Posted: 9/21/2010
In this lesson, students will examine primary sources to understand John Brown’s actions in Harpers Ferry and will develop a creative project on his legacy. This resource was produced to accompany the exhibition The Price of Freedom: Americans at War, by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Discussions, Museum education
As a boy of five, John Brown witnessed a slave his own age being beaten with a fire shovel....
conflict, 1800s, slave, abolition, abolitionist, Virginia, Harpers Ferry, Abolition, rebellion, Civil War, 1850s, Brown, John, 1859, weapon, 1850s, raid, 1859, 1800s, slavery, sectionalism
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