Harpers Ferry Raid Quotes

In the heated atmosphere after the Lincoln assassination, quite a few northerners compared Lee to the infamous John Brown, the abolitionist who was captured, tried, and hanged for the Harper's Ferry raid in 1859. Brown had been found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia after a jury deliberated for only forty-five minutes...Coincidentally, it had been Colonel Robert E. Lee of the US Army that eventually put down John Brown's short-lived rebellion at Harper's Ferry.

John Allen Muhammad’s dream was to recruit orphaned teens, train them as urban guerillas, and wage Harper’s Ferry-style raids against America’s white supremacist power structure, which is a substantially less evil end goal than destroying Iraq, salting their territory with depleted uranium, and taking their oil.