This Day (An America 250 History Show)
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John Brown: Radicalization (Part One)

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For the thirty-eighth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go to October of 1859, and abolitionist John Brown's raid on the munitions depot in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. First, we trace Brown's upbringing and anti-slavery activism -- and try to place him in the larger context of the abolitionist movement throughout the country.

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