Photo: 5" x 7": Civil War: John Brown American Abolitionist, 1856

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The
American Civil War
(1861–1865) was the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Victory for the North meant the end of the Confederacy and of slavery in the United States, and strengthened the role of the federal government.
Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a US military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
Long-term Union advantages in men and material were realized in 1864 when
Ulysses S. Grant
fought battles of attrition against Confederate commander
Robert E. Lee
who finally surrendered to Grant at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
White Star Line Archives & Images’
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American Civil War
Photos depicts the harsh realities of this brutal war many of which are never before seen views. Credit is given to all known photographers.
Please visit our store and look in the
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John Brown, very early photographic daguerreotype plate image, 1856 -
7" x 5" Print
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John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist, who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
President Abraham Lincoln said he was a "misguided fanatic" and Brown has been called "the most controversial of all 19th-century Americans." Brown's actions are often referred to as "patriotic treason", depicting both sides of the argument.
John Brown's attempt in 1859 to start a liberation movement among enslaved African Americans in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) electrified the nation. He was tried for treason against the state of Virginia, the murder of five pro-slavery Southerners, and inciting a slave insurrection and was subsequently hanged.
Southerners alleged that his rebellion was the tip of the abolitionist iceberg and represented the wishes of the Republican Party. Historians agree that the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859 escalated tensions that, a year later, led to secession and the American Civil War.
This new 1st Generation Black & White Print of the digital archive created from the original plate negative is on Heavy Premium Glossy Photo Paper in
Borderless 7" x 5" format
(exact dimensions may vary slightly) in flawless condition.
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