SYMHC Classics: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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🗓️ 9 May 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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This 2016 episode covers John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, which set out to create an armed revolution of emancipated slaves. Instead, it became a tipping point leading to the U.S. Civil War.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Saturday, everybody! |
| 0:03.9 | This episode is coming out May 9, 2020. |
| 0:07.1 | Evolutionist John Brown was born on this day 220 years ago, so we thought it would be |
| 0:12.9 | a good time to re-release our episode on his raid on Harvard's Vary. |
| 0:17.3 | This episode originally came out on September 12, 2016. |
| 0:24.1 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm Tracy B. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry. |
| 0:41.0 | John Brown's raid on Harper's Vary has come up two different times in recent episodes |
| 0:46.0 | of our podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | The first time was in our two-parter on Harriet Tubman, and then it came up again in our |
| 0:51.7 | episode on Mary and Shad Carey, and then it came up two different times on a completely |
| 0:57.5 | different podcast, which is politically reactive with W. Kamal Bell and Harry Condah Bolu. |
| 1:03.0 | And as I said, on two different episodes. |
| 1:05.9 | Plus, we've had a ton of listener requests to talk about this one as well, so it seems |
| 1:11.1 | like it's time for the world to have an episode on John Brown's raid at Harbors' Vary. |
| 1:16.5 | Here you go. |
| 1:17.9 | For background, John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut on May 9, 1800. |
| 1:23.9 | His family were strict Calvinists, and John's father Owen was a white abolitionist who believed |
| 1:28.8 | fervently that holding people in bondage was a sin against God. |
| 1:33.6 | In 1805, Owen moved the family to Hudson, Ohio, where he became deeply involved in the town's |
| 1:39.6 | efforts in the Underground Railroad, including sheltering escaping slaves in the family's |
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