October 8, 2017
IT'S NOT TERROR WHEN WE DO IT:
Vermont Designates John Brown Day To Honor Pre-Civil War Abolitionist (Lisa Rathke, 10/08/17, Associated Press)
As some communities consider removing Confederate monuments, Vermont is formally honoring abolitionist John Brown, whose 1859 raid was an important step in the events that led to the Civil War.The state legislature approved a resolution this spring sought by a Woodstock Union High School teacher designating John Brown Day in Vermont on Oct. 16, 2017. That's the anniversary of the raid Brown led on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, in what is now West Virginia, hoping to start an armed slave rebellion.
That the slaves might be free.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 8, 2017 8:10 AM