INDEX

Abolitionists, 86, 91, 93, 96, 125, 341–342.

Adams, John Quincy, 49.

Adirondack farm, the, 12, 199.

Alcott, A. Bronson, 210, 290–291.

Alleghany Mountains, 48, 106, 127, 275, 279, 299.

Anderson, Jeremiah, 258, 282–283, 324, 325, 336.

Anderson, John, 282.

Anderson, Osborne Perry, 280, 305, 334, 336.

Atchison, Senator, 134, 175.

Black Jack, battle of, 166–169, 221.

Brown, Anne, 286, 300, 301.

Brown, Edward, 145.

Brown, Frederick (the brother), 95.

Brown, Frederick (the son), 128, 152, 155, 166, 167, 178.

Brown, Jason, 87, 128, 146, 149, 159, 160, 186.

Brown, John, Jr., 127, 146, 147, 159, 186.

Brown, John, ancestry of, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20; boyhood and youth of, 21–23, 25, 31; as tanner, 31; marriage of, 32; occupations of, 32; family life of, 33–37; second marriage of, 38; in panic of 1837, 41; as shepherd, 52–60; as wool merchant, 61–68; in England, 68–71; lawsuits of, 71–74; and fugitive slaves, 84, 85; first plan against slavery, 87–88; and Negroes in, 89–91; and mobs, 91; and oath vs. slavery, 92, 93; and Abolitionists, 91–94; and settlement in Virginia, 95; and black men, 97–121; and Frederick Douglass, 102–109; in the Adirondacks, 111–113; in Kansas, 126–134, 139–140, 143–144, 145–197; developing plans of, 198–206; trip eastward of, 197, 207–218; meets Forbes, 216; return westward, 218; securing arms and men, 218–225; second trip eastward, 225–251; at Douglass’ home, 225–227; revelation of, 229–231; trip to Canada of, 15, 248–251; meets Harriet Tubman, 249–251; return to Iowa of, 251–253; third trip eastward of, 252; return to Canada, 252; Chatham convention, 253–266; betrayal of, by Forbes, 266–269; in New England and New York, 268–270; third return westward, 270–272; Harper’s Ferry plans of, 274–277; financial resources of, 277–278; military organizations of, 106, 116, 149, 160–169, 175–179, 181–182, 188–189, 191, 226–227, 278–279; Negro companions of, 280–283; white companions

402of, 283–287; health of, 288; seventh trip eastward, 288–291; starts South, 291; arrives at Harper’s Ferry, 292; perfecting arrangements, 293–307; meets Douglass, 295–297; life at Kennedy Farm, 298–302; betrayal of plans of, 302–303; raid of, at Harper’s Ferry, 308–337; capture of, 333–334; fate of companions of, 336; results, 338; trial of, 356–364; execution of, 363–364; last letters of, 365–373; and present Negro problem, 373–396; character of, 15, 16, 22–23, 26–47, 300–301, 338–358; descriptions of, 21, 28, 73, 74, 92, 104, 173–174, 197, 287; family of, 31–39, 42, 44, 45, 58, 71, 73, 74, 87, 88, 89, 92, 95, 102–104, 112, 119, 120, 121; letters of, 42–46, 53–60, 62–63, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74, 87–88, 113, 118, 132, 146–149, 151, 152, 159, 166–169, 178, 179, 182, 186, 187, 188–189, 218, 220, 227, 228, 232–234, 248, 249, 257, 266, 267, 270, 271, 304, 357, 365–373; reading of, 40; religion of, 23, 25, 40–41, 42, 47, 365–373; speeches of, 132, 150, 180–182, 213–214; song of, 334.

Brown, Oliver, 133, 146, 149, 152, 155, 283.

Brown, Owen, 19, 20, 77, 78, 128, 147, 152, 155, 186, 252, 259, 272, 283, 319, 329, 335, 336.

Brown, Peter, 19.

Brown, Salmon, 128, 137, 152–168, 186.

Brown, Watson, 155, 283.

Buchanan, President, 142, 214.

Burns, Anthony, 72.

Canada, the Negroes in, 236–238, 253–254, 270.

Caste and the Negro, 76–78, 81, 235–247, 377–380, 387, 388, 391–393.

Catchers, slave, 97.

Charleston, Va. (W. Va.), 13.

Committee, National Kansas, New York meeting of, 13, 207.

Constitution, articles of Brown’s, 265, 266.

Constitution, pro-slavery, of Kansas, 136.

Constitution, Lecompton of Kansas, 143, 187, 224.

Contact of races, 380, 382.

Convention, address of Philadelphia, 236–238.

Convention, Big Springs, Kansas, 12.

Convention, Chatham, 203, 257, 267.

Convention, Syracuse, of Abolitionists, 12, 132, 133.

Cook, John E., 219, 220, 252, 259, 315, 316, 318, 319, 324, 331, 336.

Copeland, John A., 281–305, 325, 336.

Coppoc, Barclay, 223, 319, 336.

Coppoc, Edwin, 223, 336.

Coronado, 16, 123.

Covenant and by-laws of John Brown’s followers, 160–161.

Crandall, Prudence, 87.

Daingerfield, Captain, 326.

Daniels, Jim, 192.

Davis, Jefferson, 124, 391–393.

Day, Mary Ann, 11, 38, 241.

403Decision, Dred Scott, 142, 213.

Delaney, Martin R., 245–246, 248, 254, 258.

Diary, John Brown’s, 278.

Douglass, Frederick, 7, 12, 13, 15, 47, 101, 102–109, 121, 122, 131, 132, 214, 225, 241, 247, 258, 342, 344–346, 353.

Douglas, Stephen A., 126.

Dutch Henry’s Crossing, 134, 154.

Emancipation, 386–387.

Engine-house at Harper’s Ferry, 326, 334.

Fight at Harper’s Ferry, 322–326.

Floyd, John, Secretary of War, 124.

Forbes, Hugh, 73; meets Brown, 216–217; goes West, 218–219; returns East, 219; betrays plans, 225; complaints of, 266, 268.

Franklin, Kansas, attack on, 175–176.

Freedom, League of, 244.

Free Soilers, 131.

Fugitive Slave Law, 12, 236.

Fugitive slaves, 82, 84, 85, 88, 94, 106–108, 203–204, 241.

Gabriel, 11, 83, 127.

Garnet, H. H., 98, 102, 240, 243, 248, 258.

Garrison, William Lloyd, 15, 93, 342.

Geary, Governor of Kansas, 13, 141–180, 183–184.

Giddings, Joshua, 152, 391–392.

Gill, George B., 223, 259.

Gloucester, Negro minister, 98, 248, 258.

Great Black Way, the, 273.

Greeley, Horace, 130, 266.

Green, Shields, 280, 323, 334, 336, 343–347.

Hall, Pennsylvania, 91.

Hamilton’s massacre, 188, 192–194.

Harper’s Ferry raid: the place 273–274; plans of, 274–276; financial resources of, 277–278; military organizations of, 278–280; participants of, 280–288; depot at Chambersburg, 291–292; preparations, 293–307; beginning of foray, 308; capture of armory, 310; capture of town, 311; capture of Colonel Washington, 311–312; halting of train, 313; bringing up the arms, 314–316; further plans, 317–319; gathering of militia, 320–322; dislodging of Kagi, 324–325; retreat of engine-house, 326; killing of Brown’s men, 327–329; arrival of Lee, 331; parleying, 330–333; capture of Brown, 333–334; capture and escape of others, 334–336.

Harper, Samuel, 194–195.

Hayti, 75, 97.

Hazlett, Albert, 334, 336.

Henson, Josiah, 241, 253.

Hinton, R. J., 7, 173, 181, 189, 204, 207, 222, 258, 277, 284.

Holden, Isaac, 257, 258, 277, 284.

Howe, Dr. S. G., 210, 231, 267, 341, 343.

Hunter, Andrew, 352, 353, 356.

Independence, Chatham Declaration of, 272.

404Insurrection, Cumberland region, 97.

Insurrection in Virginia, 81.

Insurrection of slaves, 79, 80, 83, 85, 97, 105–106.

Insurrection, proposed Negro, 166.

Intermarriage of races, 382, 384, 385.

Isaac, insurrection of, 97.

Jackson, President, 50.

Jamaica, 79, 97.

Jones, Henry, 241.

Jones, John, 248.

Jones, J. M., 256, 258.

Jones, Ottawa, 178.

Journal, Freedom’s, 239.

Kagi, J. H., 13, 196, 199, 200, 201, 202, 252, 259, 317, 318, 324, 325.

Kansas, 123; Brown’s sons in, 127–131; and slavery, 126, 134, 138, 144; John Brown and, 125, 126–127, 131–134, 139, 143–197.

Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 13, 135, 136, 219–221.

Kennedy Farm, 319.

Lane, General James, 134, 141, 173–176, 186.

Lane’s Army, 13, 173–176.

Lane College, 95.

Langston brothers, 241, 258.

Law, Fugitive Slave, 12, 113, 119.

Lawrence, Kansas, 12, 167, 170; sacking of, 153–154; last attack on, 180–184.

League, Liberty, 244.

League of Gileadites, 12, 114.

Leary, Lewis Sherrard, 282–305.

Lee, Robert E., 13, 331, 332.

Leeman, William H., 221, 252, 259, 325, 336.

Liberator, The, 94, 239.

Liberty Hall, 158.

Loudoun Heights, at Harper’s Ferry, 275, 318.

L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 75, 216.

Lovejoy, 91, 115.

Lusk, Dianthe, 11, 32, 38.

Marlborough Chapel, 91.

Massacre at Dutch Henry’s Crossing, 139–140, 143–144, 154–159.

Maxon farm, Iowa, 252.

Merriam, F. J., 286, 305, 336.

Middle Creek, Kansas, 158.

Military organization of Brown’s men, 106, 146, 149, 160–169, 175–179, 181–182, 188–189, 191, 226–227, 278–279.

Mills, Peter, 19.

Missouri slave raid, 191–197.

Mobs, abolition, 91.

Mobs against Negroes, 235.

Moffett, Charles W., 221, 252, 259.

Montgomery, Captain, 188, 189, 190, 191.

“Morgan, Shubel,” 189.

Mulattoes, 77.

Mysteries, American, 244.

Negro character, 17.

Negro conventions, 236, 237, 238, 239, 242, 244, 245–246.

Negro emigration, 245–246.

Negro insurgents, 318, 353–354.

Negro insurrections, 79–80, 83, 85, 97, 105–106.

Negro leaders, 97, 98, 101, 102, 110, 240, 241–243, 246, 258, 259, 294, 295.

405Negro, Northern, 235.

Negro organizations, 203–204, 244.

Negro progress, 1830–1840, 235; 1840–1850, 240; 1850–1860, 243.

Negro slavery, 76–84.

Negroes, 12, 16.

Negroes in America, 16, 17; in Canada, 236–238.

Negroes, increase of, in ten years, 243.

Negroes and John Brown, 343, 344, 347.

Negroes of Springfield, 98, 99.

Negroes, present condition of, 389.

Newby, Dangerfield, 281, 323.

North Elba, New York, 12.

North Star, 101, 242.

Oberlin College, 11, 53, 55, 95, 258, 281, 283.

Oberlin College lands in Virginia, 53–55, 95.

Odd Fellows, Negro, 240.

Osawatomie, Kansas, 12, 128, 142, 147, 152, 159, 162, 166, 177, 224.

Owen, John, 19.

Panic of 1837, 11, 50, 55, 91.

Parker, Theodore, 210, 227, 231.

Parsons, L. L., 220–221, 252, 259.

Perkins, Simon, 58, 68.

Perkins and Brown, wool-merchants, 62, 67.

Pierce, President, 151.

Plans at Harper’s Ferry, 101, 318, 319, 324, 326.

Plans of John Brown, 106–107, 260, 276.

Pottawatomie Creek, 12, 157, 158, 162.

Purvis, Robert, 241, 246.

Raid at Harper’s Ferry, see Harper’s Ferry.

Realf, Richard, 215–220, 252, 259.

Redpath, James, 7, 72, 99, 132, 147, 181, 246.

Reeder, Governor of Kansas, 215.

Reynolds, G. J., 208, 258, 260.

Richardson, Richard, 221, 252, 258.

Robinson, Charles, Governor of Kansas, 134, 150, 184, 207, 341, 342.

Rochester, N. Y., state convention, 244–245.

Ross, Dr. A. M., 251, 257.

Routes, Fugitive Slave, 97.

“Sambo’s Mistakes,” 99.

Sanborn, Frank B., 7, 13, 210, 228, 267.

Schools for Negroes, 87, 94, 95.

Shannon, Governor of Kansas, 141, 149, 150, 176.

Shore, Captain, 167–168.

“Shubel Morgan’s” Company, 189.

Slave insurrections, 79–80, 83, 85, 97, 105–106.

Slavery, 75–89, 124–126, 235.

Smith, Gerrit, 12, 53, 131, 132, 133, 207, 226, 303, 341.

Smith, J. McCune, 98, 131, 132, 225, 240, 267.

Smith, Stephen, 241, 248, 258.

Societies, Phœnix, 239.

Society, American Anti-slavery, 246.

Society, American Moral Reform, 238.

406Society, New England Emigrant Aid, 136, 145.

Song of “John Brown’s Body,” 374.

Southern bands in Kansas, 152, 166, 188.

Spell of Africa, 121.

Springdale, Iowa, John Brown in, 221–224.

Stephens, Aaron D., 173, 194, 195–222, 252, 259, 336.

Stearns, George L., 208–210, 226, 228, 277, 341.

Still, William, 241, 248.

Stuart, J. E. B., 332, 333.

“Subterranean Pass Way,” 214.

Sumner, Colonel, 15, 137, 139, 168–169, 225, 266.

Survey of Virginia lands, 53–55.

Swamp, Dismal, 86.

Swamp of the Swan, 134, 145, 177, 188, 288.

Sword of Gideon, 96.

Tariff and wool, 61.

Tariff of 1846, the, 65.

Taylor, Stewart, 223, 259.

Thayer, Eli, 126, 214.

Thomas, John A., 258.

Thomas, Thomas, 101, 247.

Thompson, Henry, 113, 155–168.

Thompson, William, 77, 173, 315, 316, 319, 324, 328, 329.

Tidd, C. P., 221, 252, 259, 315, 316, 319, 324, 331, 335, 336.

Tubman, Harriet, 204, 241, 249, 251, 293.

Turner, Nat, 11, 85, 97, 127, 239.

Underground Railroad, 94, 101, 107, 110, 198, 243, 263.

University, Western Reserve, 86.

Vesey, Denmark, 83, 97.

Virginia, 16.

Wakarusa war and treaty, 151.

War, Civil, 48, 142.

War in Kansas, 140, 142.

War of 1812, 25, 48–49.

Ward, Samuel Ringgold, 242, 243.

Wars, Seminole, 84.

Washington, Colonel Lewis, 317, 322.

Wilberforce University, 236, 253.

Wilson, Senator, 225, 226.

Wise, Governor of Virginia, 336, 355.

Woodson, Governor of Missouri, 180, 241.

Wool-growers’ convention, 62.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

P. 34, changed “John, Dr.” to “John, Jr.”.

Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.

Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.

Footnotes were re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.