[DOC] [TLE] Gerrit Smith - Wikipedia [PAR] Gerrit Smith (March 6, 1797  December 28, 1874) was a leading United States 
social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist. ... Smith, a significant 
financial contributor to the Liberty Party and the Republican Party ... of the Secret 
Six who financially supported John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. [DOC] [TLE] John Brown - PBS [PAR] John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his ... 
On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers 
Ferry, ... He helped finance the publication of David Walker's Appeal and Henry ... 
The community had been established thanks to the philanthropy of Gerrit Smith,... [DOC] [TLE] Gerrit Smith: McKivigan and Leveille - New York History Net [PAR] Gerrit Smith was born in Utica, New York, in March 1797, but resided for ... 
allowed him to become one of the leading philanthropists of the early nineteenth 
century. ... where Smith gave him $350 and loaned him another $110 to help 
finance the ... fall of 1859 with the final preparations for his attack on Harpers 
Ferry, Smith's... [DOC] [TLE] Gerrit Smith and the John Brown Raid - JStor [PAR] philanthropy and reform. His generosity was ... John Brown's seizure of the 
Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry was ... the help given to him by his financial and 
moral backers of the North, ... The origin of Gerrit Smith's connection with the raid 
at Harper's ... John Brown, I800-1859: a Biography Fifty Years After (Boston, I9IO)
. [DOC] [TLE] Re-evaluating John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry [PAR] In 1859, the raid at Harpers Ferry was taken much more seriously, both by ... 
John Brown - variously known through his life as "Old Man Brown," "Fighting 
Brown," .... His request was answered with a donation of $60., most of it from 
Gerrit Smith.22 .... But Brown never got the land, perhaps because of the financial 
problems... [DOC] [TLE] The Secret Six: Influential supporters of John Brown [PAR] Howe disapproved of Brown's raid of Missouri slave farms, and had only mild ... 
After Brown was arrested at Harper's Ferry, Howe published a disclaimer and fled 
the country. ... One historian described Higginson as "perhaps the most radical 
man in ... Millionaire antislavery philanthropist Gerrit Smith of Peterboro, New 
York... [DOC] [TLE] [Key Figure] Gerrit Smith - Underground Railroad [PAR] Steadfast in his pursuit of equality, Gerrit Smith was a leading American social ... 
The young patrician had visions of becoming a man of letters, an eminent lawyer, 
... In 1840 he helped found the Liberty Party, which interpreted the Constitution as 
an ... to incite a massive slave insurrection via the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry. [DOC] [TLE] Gerrit Smith, Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman: The Anti ... [PAR] Gerrit Smith, Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman .... anti-slavery journals 
which were appearing, The Rights of Man in Rochester, the ..... in his planning of 
the Harpers Ferry event which Smith helped to finance. .... He was a friend of 
John Brown, but he refused to become involved in the October 1859 Harpers 
Ferry raid... [DOC] [TLE] Gerrit Smith by Erica Korolev on Prezi [PAR] Apr 19, 2016 ... ~Most of Smith's philanthropy concentrated on liberating slaves; complemented 
individuals' efforts to buy freedom ... sent agents into south to negotiate financial 
terms for freedom ... ~He also helped found the anti-slavery Liberty Party in 1840. 
... assistance to John Brown for his 1859 raid at Harper's Ferry. [DOC] [TLE] Prologue | John Brown: America's First Terrorist? | National Archives [PAR] For Southerners, Brown was the embodiment of all their fearsa white man 
willing to ... When Brown was hanged in 1859 for his raid on Harpers Ferry, 
Virginia, ..... Despite his own poor education and struggles with schooling, he 
helped start ... In the 1840s Brown was in contact with such antislavery leaders as 
Gerrit Smith... [DOC] [TLE]

Question: Philanthropist Gerrit Smith helped finance this man's 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry
Answer: John Brown