# John Brown (Du Bois)/Index

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 of, 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.
* Decision, 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 of, 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.
* Insurrection, 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, 14, 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.
* Negro, 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, Phoenix, 239.
* Society, American Anti-slavery, 246.
* Society, American Moral Reform, 238.
* Society, 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, 133, 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.